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  • 1
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    Jahrbuch Medienpädagogik ... (from 2001-)
    [Berlin] : Zeitschrift MedienPädagogik, Sektion Medienpädagogik (DGfE) | Opladen : Leske + Budrich | Wiesbaden : VS, Verl. für Sozialwiss. | Wiesbaden : Springer VS ; 1.2001 - 3.2003; 4.2005 -
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    ISSN: 2627-5384 , 2627-5384 , ISSN 2627-5392
    Language: German
    Pages: 21 cm
    Dates of Publication: 1.2001 - 3.2003; 4.2005 -
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als Jahrbuch Medienpädagogik
    DDC: 302.23071
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    DA 1000
    Keywords: Medienpädagogik ; Zeitschrift ; Medienpädagogik
    Note: Ersch. unregelmäßig; bis 3.2003 jährl.; 5.2005 - 8.2010 als Schriftenreihe
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  • 2
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    Bodies and Language : Health, Ailments, Disabilities (2009)
    Blue Ridge Summit, PA : Multilingual Matters | Berlin : Walter de Gruyter GmbH
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    ISBN: 9781847692375
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource
    DDC: 306.44
    Abstract: This book critically addresses the role of language in our collective construction of ‘normal’ bodies. Addressing a range of concerns linked with visible and invisible, chronic and terminal conditions, the volume probes issues in and around patient and caregiver accounts. Focussing on body conditions associated with breast cancer, Alzheimer’s disease, (type-1) diabetes, epilepsy, partial hearing and autism, the book draws on a range of critical theories to contest collectively assembled notions of ‘abnormality,’ ‘disability’ and ‘impairments.’ It also addresses the need for applied sociolinguists to take account of how our researching practices - the texts we produce, the orientations we assume, the theoretical grounds from which we proceed-- create ‘meanings’ about bodies and ‘normalcy,’ and the importance of remaining ever vigilant and civically responsible in what we do or claim to do.
    Note: Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 07. Dez 2018)
    DOI: 10.21832/9781847692375
    URL: https://doi.org/10.21832/9781847692375
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  • 3
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    Heidegger and the Earth : Essays in Environmental Philosophy (2009)
    Toronto : University of Toronto Press | Berlin : Walter de Gruyter GmbH
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    ISBN: 9781442697720
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource
    Edition: [2016]
    DDC: 304.201
    Keywords: Aufsatzsammlung
    Abstract: Some of the fundamental questions of our time are ecological - urgent environmental problems demand newly conceived solutions for the betterment and preservation of life on this planet. In this newly revised and greatly expanded edition of Heidegger and the Earth, the contributors approach contemporary ecological issues through the medium of Heidegger's thought.Amid pressing concerns about wildlife and wilderness preservation, agricultural practices, and technological innovation, contributors discuss how thinking with Heidegger in the twenty-first century yields creative ideas about the natural world that are unconstrained by traditional theoretical frameworks. The conflicting viewpoints in some of the essays will inspire further conversation and debate among readers and break apart established thought patterns. Unconventional and provocative, Heidegger and the Earth urges us to set aside what we think we know in order to work through ecological problems and to discover new ways of living in the world.
    Note: Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 08. Jul 2019)
    DOI: 10.3138/9781442697720
    URL: https://doi.org/10.3138/9781442697720
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  • 4
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    Dreaming Blackness : Black Nationalism and African American Public Opinion (2009)
    New York, NY : New York University Press | Berlin : Walter de Gruyter GmbH
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    ISBN: 9780814768457
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource
    DDC: 305.896
    Abstract: Black Nationalism is one of the oldest and most enduring ideological constructs developed by African Americans to make sense of their social and political worlds. In Dreaming Blackness, Melanye T. Price explores the current understandings of Black Nationalism among African Americans, providing a balanced and critical view of today’s black political agenda. She argues that Black Nationalism continues to enjoy moderate levels of support by most black citizens but has a more difficult time gaining a larger stronghold because of increasing diversity among blacks and a growing emphasis on individualism over collective struggle. She shows that black interests are a dynamic negotiation among various interested groups and suggests that those differences are not just important for the "black agenda" but also for how African Americans think and dialogue about black political questions daily.Using a mix of everyday talk and impressive statistical data to explain contemporary black opinions, Price highlights the ways in which Black Nationalism works in a "post-racial" society. Ultimately, Price offers a multilayered portrait of African American political opinions, providing a new understanding of race specific ideological views and their impact on African Americans, persuasively illustrating that Black Nationalism is an ideology that scholars and politicians should not dismiss.
    Note: Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 23. Jul 2020)
    DOI: 10.18574/nyu/9780814768457.001.0001
    URL: https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9780814768457
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  • 5
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    Cow Boys and Cattle Men : Class and Masculinities on the Texas Frontier, 1865-1900 (2009)
    New York, NY : New York University Press | Berlin : Walter de Gruyter GmbH
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    ISBN: 9780814759844
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource
    DDC: 305.33636213097640
    Abstract: Cowboys are an American legend, but despite ubiquity in history and popular culture, misperceptions abound. Technically, a cowboy worked with cattle, as a ranch hand, while his boss, the cattleman, owned the ranch. Jacqueline M. Moore casts aside romantic and one-dimensional images of cowboys by analyzing the class, gender, and labor histories of ranching in Texas during the second half of the nineteenth century.As working-class men, cowboys showed their masculinity through their skills at work as well as public displays in town. But what cowboys thought was manly behavior did not always match those ideas of the business-minded cattlemen, who largely absorbed middle-class masculine ideals of restraint. Real men, by these standards, had self-mastery over their impulses and didn’t fight, drink, gamble or consort with "unsavory" women. Moore explores how, in contrast to the mythic image, from the late 1870s on, as the Texas frontier became more settled and the open range disappeared, the real cowboys faced increasing demands from the people around them to rein in the very traits that Americans considered the most masculine.Published in Cooperation with the William P. Clements Center for Southwest Studies, Southern Methodist University.
    Note: Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 23. Jul 2020)
    DOI: 10.18574/nyu/9780814757390.001.0001
    URL: https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9780814759844
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  • 6
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    Cheng Ho and Islam in Southeast Asia (2009)
    Singapore : ISEAS Publishing | Berlin : Walter de Gruyter GmbH
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    ISBN: 9789812308399
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource
    DDC: 306.6970959
    Abstract: Tan Ta Sen has modestly suggested that, as a book to illustrate the peaceful impact of culture contact, he is concerned to show how such cultural influences not only led to transmissions, conversions and transferences involving Inner Asian Muslims from China and Yunnan Muslims, Chams, Javanese, Malays, Arabs and Indians, but also enabled many Chinese in the Malay world to retain their non-Muslim cultural traits. In placing Cheng Ho’s voyages in this context, the author offers a fresh perspective on a momentous set of events in Chinese maritime history. Professor Wang Gungwu, National University of Singapore. Tan Ta Sen’s book on Cheng Ho and Islam in Southeast Asia is not the first one on the subject, but it is the first book that puts Cheng Ho’s voyages in the larger context of "culture contact" in China and beyond. He has garnered numerous sources, from published documents to architectural sites and buildings, to support his arguments. He has done much more than previous scholars writing on this subject. - Professor Leo Suryadinata, Chinese Heritage Centre (Singapore). This long-awaited book is welcomed by the academic community … Tan Ta Sen has used historical facts to strengthen the argument on the existence of the "Third Wave", i.e. "the Chinese Wave", in the spread of Islam in the Southeast Asian region. Until now, we only know two major waves, i.e. the India-Gujarat Wave and the Middle East Wave through the development of trade relations. - Professor A. Dahana, University of Indonesia (Jakarta).
    Note: Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 22. Jun 2018)
    DOI: 10.1355/9789812308399
    URL: https://doi.org/10.1355/9789812308399
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  • 7
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    The Culture of Punishment : Prison, Society, and Spectacle (2009)
    New York, NY : New York University Press | Berlin : Walter de Gruyter GmbH
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    ISBN: 9780814739044
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource
    Series Statement: Alternative Criminology 23
    DDC: 303.3/6
    Abstract: America is the most punitive nation in the world, incarcerating more than 2.3 million people—or one in 136 of its residents. Against the backdrop of this unprecedented mass imprisonment, punishment permeates everyday life, carrying with it complex cultural meanings. In The Culture of Punishment, Michelle Brown goes beyond prison gates and into the routine and popular engagements of everyday life, showing that those of us most distanced from the practice of punishment tend to be particularly harsh in our judgments.The Culture of Punishment takes readers on a tour of the sites where culture and punishment meet—television shows, movies, prison tourism, and post 9/11 new war prisons—demonstrating that because incarceration affects people along distinct race and class lines, it is only a privileged group of citizens who are removed from the experience of incarceration. These penal spectators, who often sanction the infliction of pain from a distance, risk overlooking the reasons for democratic oversight of the project of punishment and, more broadly, justifications for the prohibition of pain.
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    DOI: 10.18574/nyu/9780814739044.001.0001
    URL: https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9780814739044
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  • 8
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    Sephardic Jews in America : A Diasporic History (2009)
    New York, NY : New York University Press | Berlin : Walter de Gruyter GmbH
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    ISBN: 9780814739150
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource , 8 black and white illustrations
    DDC: 305.892/4073
    Abstract: A significant number of Sephardic Jews, tracing their remote origins to Spain and Portugal, immigrated to the United States from Turkey, Greece, and the Balkans from 1880 through the 1920s, joined by a smaller number of Mizrahi Jews arriving from Arab lands. Most Sephardim settled in New York, establishing the leading Judeo-Spanish community outside the Ottoman Empire. With their distinct languages, cultures, and rituals, Sephardim and Arab-speaking Mizrahim were not readily recognized as Jews by their Ashkenazic coreligionists. At the same time, they forged alliances outside Jewish circles with Hispanics and Arabs, with whom they shared significant cultural and linguistic ties.The failure among Ashkenazic Jews to recognize Sephardim and Mizrahim as fellow Jews continues today. More often than not, these Jewish communities are simply absent from portrayals of American Jewry. Drawing on primary sources such as the Ladino (Judeo-Spanish) press, archival documents, and oral histories, Sephardic Jews in America offers the first book-length academic treatment of their history in the United States, from 1654 to the present, focusing on the age of mass immigration.
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    DOI: 10.18574/nyu/9780814739150.001.0001
    URL: https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9780814739150
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  • 9
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    Crimes of Dissent : Civil Disobedience, Criminal Justice, and the Politics of Conscience (2009)
    New York, NY : New York University Press | Berlin : Walter de Gruyter GmbH
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    ISBN: 9780814753477
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource
    Series Statement: Alternative Criminology 19
    DDC: 303.6/2
    Abstract: From animal rights to anti-abortion, from tax resistance to anti-poverty, activists from across the political spectrum often deliberately break the law to further their causes. While not behaviors common to hardened or self-seeking criminals, the staging of civil disobedience, non-violent resistance, and direct action can nevertheless trigger a harsh response from law enforcement, with those arrested risking jail time and criminal records. Crimes of Dissent features the voices of these activists, presenting a fascinating insider’s look at the motivations, costs and consequences of deliberately violating the law as a strategy of social change.Crimes of Dissent provides readers with an in-depth understanding of why activists break the law, and what happens to them when they do. Using dynamic examples, both historic and recent, Jarret Lovell explores how seasoned protesters are handled and treated by the criminal justice system, shedding light on the intersection between the political and the criminal. By adopting the unique vantage of the street-level activist, Crimes of Dissent provides a fascinating view of protest from the ground, giving voice to those who refuse to remain silent by risking punishment for their political actions.
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    DOI: 10.18574/nyu/9780814753477.001.0001
    URL: https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9780814753477
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  • 10
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    Marriage and Modernity : Family Values in Colonial Bengal (2009)
    Durham : Duke University Press | Berlin : Walter de Gruyter GmbH
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    ISBN: 9780822390800
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (356 p.) , 42 photographs, 2 tables
    Series Statement: e-Duke books scholarly collection : 33
    DDC: 306.810954/1409034
    Abstract: An innovative cultural history of the evolution of modern marriage practices in Bengal, Marriage and Modernity challenges the assumption that arranged marriage is an antiquated practice. Rochona Majumdar demonstrates that in the late colonial period Bengali marriage practices underwent changes that led to a valorization of the larger, intergenerational family as a revered, "ancient" social institution, with arranged marriage as the apotheosis of an "Indian" tradition. She meticulously documents the ways that these newly embraced "traditions"-the extended family and arranged marriage-entered into competition and conversation with other emerging forms of kinship such as the modern unit of the couple, with both models participating promiscuously in the new "marketplace" for marriages, where matrimonial advertisements in the print media and the payment of dowry played central roles. Majumdar argues that together the kinship structures newly asserted as distinctively Indian and the emergence of the marriage market constituted what was and still is modern about marriages in India.Majumdar examines three broad developments related to the modernity of arranged marriage: the growth of a marriage market, concomitant debates about consumption and vulgarity in the conduct of weddings, and the legal regulation of family property and marriages. Drawing on matrimonial advertisements, wedding invitations, poems, photographs, legal debates, and a vast periodical literature, she shows that the modernization of families does not necessarily imply a transition from extended kinship to nuclear family structures, or from matrimonial agreements negotiated between families to marriage contracts between individuals. Colonial Bengal tells a very different story.
    DOI: 10.1515/9780822390800
    URL: https://doi.org/10.1515/9780822390800?locatt=mode:legacy
    URL: https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9780822390800
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  • 11
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    Vengeance in Medieval Europe : A Reader (2009)
    Toronto : University of Toronto Press | Berlin : Walter de Gruyter GmbH
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    ISBN: 9781442603509
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (496 p.)
    Edition: 2022
    Series Statement: Readings in Medieval Civilizations and Cultures 13
    DDC: 306.20940902
    Abstract: How did medieval society deal with private justice, with grudges, and with violent emotions? This ground-breaking reader collects for the first time a number of unpublished or difficult-to-find texts that address violence and emotion in the Middle Ages.The sources collected here illustrate the power and reach of the language of vengeance in medieval European society. They span the early, high, and later middle ages, and capture a range of perspectives including legal sources, learned commentaries, narratives, and documents of practice. Though social elites necessarily figure prominently in all medieval sources, sources concerning relatively low-status individuals and sources pertaining to women are included. The sources range from saints' lives that illustrate the idea of vengeance to later medieval court records concerning vengeful practices. A secondary goal of the collection is to illustrate the prominence of mechanisms for peacemaking in medieval European society. The introduction traces recent scholarly developments in the study of vengeance and discusses the significance of these concepts for medieval political and social history.
    DOI: 10.3138/9781442603509
    URL: https://doi.org/10.3138/9781442603509
    URL: https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9781442603509
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  • 12
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    Clandestine Crossings : Migrants and Coyotes on the Texas-Mexico Border (2009)
    Ithaca, N.Y. : Cornell University Press | Berlin : Walter de Gruyter GmbH
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    ISBN: 9780801460395
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource
    Edition: [2016]
    DDC: 304.8/73072
    Abstract: Clandestine Crossings delivers an in-depth description and analysis of the experiences of working-class Mexican migrants at the beginning of the twenty-first century as they enter the United States surreptitiously with the help of paid guides known as coyotes. Drawing on ethnographic observations of crossing conditions in the borderlands of South Texas, as well as interviews with migrants, coyotes, and border officials, Spener details how migrants and coyotes work together to evade apprehension by U.S. law enforcement authorities as they cross the border. In so doing, he seeks to dispel many of the myths that misinform public debate about undocumented immigration to the United States. The hiring of a coyote, Spener argues, is one of the principal strategies that Mexican migrants have developed in response to intensified U.S. border enforcement. Although this strategy is typically portrayed in the press as a sinister organized-crime phenomenon, Spener argues that it is better understood as the resistance of working-class Mexicans to an economic model and set of immigration policies in North America that increasingly resemble an apartheid system. In the absence of adequate employment opportunities in Mexico and legal mechanisms for them to work in the United States, migrants and coyotes draw on their social connections and cultural knowledge to stage successful border crossings in spite of the ever greater dangers placed in their path by government authorities.
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    DOI: 10.7591/9780801460395
    URL: https://doi.org/10.7591/9780801460395
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  • 13
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    The Politics of Knowledge (2009)
    Singapore : ISEAS Publishing | Berlin : Walter de Gruyter GmbH
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    ISBN: 9789812309334
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource
    DDC: 306.2
    Keywords: Konferenzschrift
    Abstract: The publication of this book, comprising chapters written by distinguished scholars, is a timely recognition that these days we are bombarded by suggestions that knowledge is power, that we are operating in a knowledge economy, and that the greatest driver for financial growth and national development is the knowledge industry. There are more sources of knowledge available to a wider range of the world’s population than ever before. The Internet has made the dissemination of knowledge possible in ways not contemplated fifty years ago. National boundaries are crossed with consummate ease. Knowledge is not like other assets. It can be accessed rapidly and used by thousands, often millions, of people. This makes knowledge as an asset that generated much of the wealth in the early development of most nations. And different countries and regions need different strategies to support and promote the growth of their knowledge economies. These call for nationally and regionally-based approaches, and they entail new dynamics and challenges in wealth creation, legal regulation, national and social organization and the protection of environmental and natural resources.
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    DOI: 10.1355/9789812309334
    URL: https://doi.org/10.1355/9789812309334
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  • 14
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    TheIdea of English in Japan : Ideology and the Evolution of a Global Language (2009)
    Blue Ridge Summit, PA : Multilingual Matters | Berlin : Walter de Gruyter GmbH
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    ISBN: 9781847692030
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource
    Series Statement: Critical Language and Literacy Studies
    DDC: 306.440952
    Abstract: This book examines the ways in which English is conceptualised as a global language in Japan, and considers how the resultant language ideologies – drawn in part from universal discourses; in part from context-specific trends in social history – inform the relationships that people in Japan have towards the language. The book analyses the specific nature of the language’s symbolic meaning in Japan, and how this meaning is expressed and negotiated in society. It also discusses how the ideologies of English that exist in Japan might have implications for the more general concept of ‘English as a global language’. To this end it considers the question of what constitutes a ‘global’ language, and how, if at all, a balance can be struck between the universal and the historically-contingent when it comes to formulating a theory of English within the world.
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    DOI: 10.21832/9781847692030
    URL: https://doi.org/10.21832/9781847692030
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  • 15
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    Zhivago's Children : The Last Russian Intelligentsia (2009)
    Cambridge, MA : Harvard University Press | Berlin : Walter de Gruyter GmbH
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    ISBN: 9780674054837
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (464 p.)
    Edition: 2022
    DDC: 305.5/52/0947
    Abstract: Among the least-chronicled aspects of post-World War II European intellectual and cultural history is the story of the Russian intelligentsia after Stalin. Vladislav Zubok turns a compelling subject into a portrait as intimate as it is provocative. Zhivago's children, the spiritual heirs of Boris Pasternak's noble doctor, were the last of their kind - an intellectual and artistic community committed to a civic, cultural, and moral mission.
    DOI: 10.4159/9780674054837
    URL: https://doi.org/10.4159/9780674054837
    URL: https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9780674054837
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    Networked Politics : Agency, Power, and Governance (2009)
    Ithaca, N.Y. : Cornell University Press | Berlin : Walter de Gruyter GmbH
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    ISBN: 9780801458880
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource
    Edition: [2015]
    Series Statement: Cornell Studies in Political Economy
    DDC: 302.3/5
    Keywords: Aufsatzsammlung
    Abstract: The concept of network has emerged as an intellectual centerpiece for our era. Network analysis also occupies a growing place in many of the social sciences. In international relations, however, network has too often remained a metaphor rather than a powerful theoretical perspective. In Networked Politics, a team of political scientists investigates networks in important sectors of international relations, including human rights, security agreements, terrorist and criminal groups, international inequality, and governance of the Internet. They treat networks as either structures that shape behavior or important collective actors. In their hands, familiar concepts, such as structure, power, and governance, are awarded new meaning. Contributors: Peter Cowhey, University of California, San Diego; Mette Eilstrup-Sangiovanni, University of Cambridge and Sidney Sussex College; Zachary Elkins, University of Texas at Austin; Emilie M. Hafner-Burton, Princeton University; Miles Kahler, University of California, San Diego; Michael Kenney, Pennsylvania State University; David A. Lake, University of California, San Diego; Alexander H. Montgomery, Reed College; Milton Mueller, Syracuse University School of Information Studies and Delft University of Technology; Kathryn Sikkink, University of Minnesota; Janice Gross Stein, University of Toronto; Wendy H. Wong, University of Toronto; Helen Yanacopulos, Open University...
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    DOI: 10.7591/9780801458880
    URL: https://doi.org/10.7591/9780801458880
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  • 17
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    Living the Information Society in Asia (2009)
    Singapore : ISEAS Publishing | Berlin : Walter de Gruyter GmbH
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    ISBN: 9789812309099
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource
    DDC: 303.4833095
    Keywords: Konferenzschrift
    Abstract: Undeniably, Asian societies are in a period of transition, when people are learning to live with new information and communication technologies (ICTs) - whether in commerce, government or development work. Living the Information Society in Asia describes the interaction of people and new ICTs as the technologies seep into everyday life, such as how mobile phones forge relationships among families separated by migration, how camera phones threaten personal space, how cultural identities are strengthened in call centres, and how religion is incorporated into the new communication technologies people use. Living the Information society in Asia looks at the phenomenon as it unfolds and raises the implications for policy and future research.
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    DOI: 10.1355/9789812309099
    URL: https://doi.org/10.1355/9789812309099
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    Between Good and Ghetto : African American Girls and Inner-City Violence (2009)
    New Brunswick, NJ : Rutgers University Press | Berlin : Walter de Gruyter GmbH
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    ISBN: 9780813548258
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource
    Series Statement: Rutgers Series in Childhood Studies
    DDC: 305.23089/96073
    Abstract: With an outward gaze focused on a better future, Between Good and Ghetto reflects the social world of inner city African American girls and how they manage threats of personal violence. Drawing on personal encounters, traditions of urban ethnography, Black feminist thought, gender studies, and feminist criminology, Nikki Jones gives readers a richly descriptive and compassionate account of how African American girls negotiate schools and neighborhoods governed by the so-called "code of the street"ùthe form of street justice that governs violence in distressed urban areas. She reveals the multiple strategies they use to navigate interpersonal and gender-specific violence and how they reconcile the gendered dilemmas of their adolescence. Illuminating struggles for survival within this group, Between Good and Ghetto encourages others to move African American girls toward the center of discussions of "the crisis" in poor, urban neighborhoods.
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    DOI: 10.36019/9780813548258
    URL: https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9780813548258
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    Respectable Citizens : Gender, Family, and Unemployment in Ontario's Great Depression (2009)
    Toronto : University of Toronto Press | Berlin : Walter de Gruyter GmbH
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    ISBN: 9781442697416
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (304 p.)
    Edition: [2020]
    DDC: 305.9/06940971309043
    Abstract: High unemployment rates, humiliating relief policy, and the spectre of eviction characterized the experiences of many Ontario families in the Great Depression. Respectable Citizens is an examination of the material difficulties and survival strategies of families facing poverty and unemployment, and an analysis of how collective action and protest redefined the meanings of welfare and citizenship in the 1930s.Lara Campbell draws on diverse sources including newspapers, family and juvenile court records, premiers' papers, memoirs, and oral histories to uncover the ways in which the material workings of the family and the discursive category of 'respectable' citizenship were invested with gendered obligations and Anglo-British identity. Respectable Citizens demonstrates how women and men represented themselves as entitled to make specific claims on the state, shedding new light on the cooperative and conflicting relationships between men and women, parents and children, and citizen and state in 1930s Canada.
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    DOI: 10.3138/9781442697416
    URL: https://doi.org/10.3138/9781442697416
    URL: https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9781442697416
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    The Sexuality of Migration : Border Crossings and Mexican Immigrant Men (2009)
    New York, NY : New York University Press | Berlin : Walter de Gruyter GmbH
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    ISBN: 9780814790106
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource
    Series Statement: Intersections 5
    DDC: 306.76/620896872073
    Abstract: Winner of the 2010 Distinguished Book Award from the American Sociological Association, Sociology of Sexualities Section Winner of the 2010 Distinguished Book Award in Latino Studies Honorable Mention from the Latin American Studies AssociationThe Sexuality of Migration provides an innovative study of the experiences of Mexican men who have same sex with men and who have migrated to the United States.Until recently, immigration scholars have left out the experiences of gays and lesbians. In fact, the topic of sexuality has only recently been addressed in the literature on immigration. The Sexuality of Migration makes significant connections among sexuality, state institutions, and global economic relations. Cantú; situates his analysis within the history of Mexican immigration and offers a broad understanding of diverse migratory experiences ranging from recent gay asylum seekers to an assessment of gay tourism in Mexico. Cantú uses a variety of methods including archival research, interviews, and ethnographic research to explore the range of experiences of Mexican men who have sex with men and the political economy of sexuality and immigration. His primary research site is the greater Los Angeles area, where he interviewed many immigrant men and participated in organizations and community activities alongside his informants.Sure to fill gaps in the field, The Sexuality of Migration simultaneously complicates a fixed notion of sexual identity and explores the complex factors that influence immigration and migration experiences.
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    DOI: 10.18574/nyu/9780814790106.001.0001
    URL: https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9780814790106
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    Alcohol, Violence, and Disorder in Traditional Europe (2009)
    University Park, PA : Penn State University Press | Berlin : Walter de Gruyter GmbH
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    ISBN: 9780271091013
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (272 p.)
    Edition: 2021
    Series Statement: Early Modern Studies 2
    DDC: 303.6094
    Keywords: Disorderly conduct History ; Drinking of alcoholic beverages History ; Violence History ; HISTORY / Social History
    Abstract: Traditional Europe had high levels of violence and of alcohol consumption, both higher than they are in modern Western societies, where studies demonstrate a link between violence and alcohol. A. Lynn Martin uses an anthropological approach to examine drinking, drinking establishments, violence, and disorder, and compares the wine-producing south with the beer-drinking north and Catholic France and Italy with Protestant England, and explores whether alcohol consumption can also explain the violence and disorder of traditional Europe.Both Catholic and Protestant moralists believed in the link, and they condemned drunkenness and drinking establishments for causing violence and disorder. They did not advocate complete abstinence, however, for alcoholic beverages had an important role in most people's diets. Less appreciated by the moralists was alcohol's function as the ubiquitous social lubricant and the increasing importance of alehouses and taverns as centers of popular recreation.The study utilizes both quantitative and qualitative evidence from a wide variety of sources to question the beliefs of the moralists and the assumptions of modern scholars about the role of alcohol and drinking establishments in causing violence and disorder. It ends by analyzing the often-conflicting regulations of local, regional, and national governments that attempted to ensure that their citizens had a reliable supply of good drink at a reasonable cost but also to control who drank what, where, when, and how.No other comparable book examines the relationship of alcohol to violence and disorder during this period.
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    DOI: 10.1515/9780271091013
    URL: https://doi.org/10.1515/9780271091013
    URL: https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9780271091013
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    Exploring Environmental History : Selected Essays (2009)
    Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press | Berlin : Walter de Gruyter GmbH
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    ISBN: 9780748635146
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (256 p.) , 13 B/W illustrations
    Edition: 2022
    DDC: 304.209
    Abstract: This volume, newly available in paperback, brings together the best of T. C. Smout's recent articles and contributions to books and journals on the topic of environmental history and offers them as a collection of 'explorations'. The author's interests are multi-faceted and, though often focussed on post-1600 Scotland, by no means restricted to that area.
    DOI: 10.1515/9780748635146
    URL: https://doi.org/10.1515/9780748635146
    URL: https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9780748635146
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    International Migration in Cuba : Accumulation, Imperial Designs, and Transnational Social Fields (2009)
    University Park, PA : Penn State University Press | Berlin : Walter de Gruyter GmbH
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    ISBN: 9780271058825
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (344 p.)
    Edition: 2021
    DDC: 304.8097291
    Keywords: Cubans Migrations ; History ; Cubans History ; Migrations ; Immigrants History ; Cuba ; Immigrants History ; Immigrants History ; HISTORY / Caribbean & West Indies / Cuba
    Abstract: Since the arrival of the Spanish conquerors at the beginning of the colonial period, Cuba has been hugely influenced by international migration. Between 1791 and 1810, for instance, many French people migrated to Cuba in the wake of the purchase of Louisiana by the United States and turmoil in Saint-Domingue. Between 1847 and 1874, Cuba was the main recipient of Chinese indentured laborers in Latin America. During the nineteenth century as a whole, more Spanish people migrated to Cuba than anywhere else in the Americas, and hundreds of thousands of slaves were taken to the island. The first decades of the twentieth century saw large numbers of immigrants and temporary workers from various societies arrive in Cuba. And since the revolution of 1959, a continuous outflow of Cubans toward many countries has taken place—with lasting consequences.In this book, the most comprehensive study of international migration in Cuba ever undertaken, Margarita Cervantes-Rodríguez aims to elucidate the forces that have shaped international migration and the involvement of the migrants in transnational social fields since the beginning of the colonial period. Drawing on Fernand Braudel’s concept of longue durée, transnational studies, perspectives on power, and other theoretical frameworks, the author places her analysis in a much wider historical and theoretical perspective than has previously been applied to the study of international migration in Cuba, making this a work of substantial interest to social scientists as well as historians.
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    DOI: 10.1515/9780271058825
    URL: https://doi.org/10.1515/9780271058825
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    Guadalupe in New York : Devotion and the Struggle for Citizenship Rights among Mexican Immigrants (2009)
    New York, NY : New York University Press | Berlin : Walter de Gruyter GmbH
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    ISBN: 9780814733134
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource
    DDC: 305.8687207471
    Abstract: Every December 12th, thousands of Mexican immigrants gather for the mass at New York City's St. Patrick's Cathedral in honor of Our Lady of Guadalupe's feast day. They kiss images of the Virgin, wait for a bishop's blessing-and they also carry signs asking for immigration reform, much like political protestors. It is this juxtaposition of religion and politics that Alyshia Gálvez investigates in Guadalupe in New York.The Virgin of Guadalupe is a profound symbol for Mexican and Mexican-American Catholics and the patron saint of their country. Her name has been invoked in war and in peace, and her image has been painted on walls, printed on T-shirts, and worshipped at countless shrines. For undocumented Mexicans in New York, Guadalupe continues to be a powerful presence as they struggle to gain citizenship in a new country.Through rich ethnographic research that illuminates Catholicism as practiced by Mexicans in New York, Gálvez shows that it is through Guadalupan devotion that many undocumented immigrants are finding the will and vocabulary to demand rights, immigration reform, and respect. She also reveals how such devotion supports and emboldens immigrants in their struggle to provide for their families and create their lives in the city with dignity.
    DOI: 10.18574/nyu/9780814732144.001.0001
    URL: https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9780814733134
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    Black Sexualities : Probing Powers, Passions, Practices, and Policies (2009)
    New Brunswick, NJ : Rutgers University Press | Berlin : Walter de Gruyter GmbH
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    ISBN: 9780813548166
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource
    DDC: 305.896/073
    Abstract: Why does society have difficulty discussing sexualities? Where does fear of Black sexualities emerge and how is it manifested? How can varied experiences of Black females and males who are lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender (LGBT), or straight help inform dialogue and academic inquiry? From questioning forces that have constrained sexual choices to examining how Blacks have forged healthy sexual identities in an oppressive environment, Black Sexualities acknowledges the diversity of the Black experience and the shared legacy of racism. Contributors seek resolution to Blacks' understanding of their lives as sexual beings through stories of empowerment, healing, self-awareness, victories, and other historic and contemporary life-course panoramas and provide practical information to foster more culturally relative research, tolerance, and acceptance.
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    DOI: 10.36019/9780813548166
    URL: https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9780813548166
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    Pleasures and Perils : Girls' Sexuality in a Caribbean Consumer Culture (2009)
    New Brunswick, NJ : Rutgers University Press | Berlin : Walter de Gruyter GmbH
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    ISBN: 9780813546964
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (256 p.)
    Series Statement: Rutgers Series in Childhood Studies
    DDC: 306.7082/0972973
    Abstract: Pleasures and Perils follows a group of young girls living on Nevis, an island society in the Eastern Caribbean. In this provocative ethnography, Debra Curtis examines their sexuality in gripping detail: why do Nevisian girls engage in sexual activity at such young ages? Where is the line between coercion and consent? How does a desire for wealth affect a girl's sexual practices? Curtis shows that girls are often caught between conflicting discourses of Christian teachings about chastity, public health cautions about safe sex, and media enticements about consumer delights. Sexuality's contradictions are exposed: power and powerless¡ness, self-determination and cultural control, violence and pleasure. Pleasures and Perils illuminates the methodological and ethical issues anthropologists face when they conduct research on sex, especially among girls. The sexually explicit narratives conveyed in this book challenge not only the reader's own thoughts on sexuality but also the broader limits and possibilities of ethnography.
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    DOI: 10.36019/9780813546964
    URL: https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9780813546964
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    Gender Trends in Southeast Asia : Women Now, Women in the Future (2009)
    Singapore : ISEAS Publishing | Berlin : Walter de Gruyter GmbH
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    ISBN: 9789812309563
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource
    DDC: 305.307
    Keywords: Konferenzschrift
    Abstract: As a region, Southeast Asia has undergone enormous economic and social changes in the last few decades. Women as a collective have seen their lives transformed as a result of rapid development and economic growth. In exploring the progress made by Southeast Asian men and women, this book seeks to answer the following questions: (a) In what areas have women been able to achieve parity with men? (b) In what areas do women encounter specific disadvantages based on their gender as compared with men? and (c) How have women’s concerns and problems been addressed by the governments in this region with the aim of encouraging gender equality? As the title of this book suggests, the chapters provide an analysis of the broad trends - including changes and continuities - in the experiences, interests and concerns of Southeast Asian women. The chapters examine the trends related to women in the following arenas: the family, economic participation, politics, health, and religion. In some arenas, the trends reflect the disadvantages women face, which in turn have led to gender gaps; in other areas, women's progress has been found to eclipse that of the men, although this tends to be the exception.
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    DOI: 10.1355/9789812309563
    URL: https://doi.org/10.1355/9789812309563
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    Inside Insurgency : Violence, Civilians, and Revolutionary Group Behavior (2009)
    New York, NY : New York University Press | Berlin : Walter de Gruyter GmbH
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    ISBN: 9780814759554
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource
    DDC: 303.64
    Abstract: Once considered nationalists, many insurgent groups are now labeled as terrorists and thought to endanger not just their own people, but the world. As the unprecedented trends in political violence among insurgents have taken shape, and as hundreds of thousands of civilians continue to be displaced, brutalized, and killed, Inside Insurgency provides startling insights that help to explain the nature of insurgent behavior.Claire Metelits draws from over 100 interviews with insurgent soldiers, commanders, government officials, scholars, and civilians in Sudan, Kenya, Colombia, Turkey, and Iraq, offering a new understanding of insurgent group behavior and providing compelling and intimate portraits of the SPLA, FARC, and PKK. The engaging narratives that emerge from her on-the-ground fieldwork provide incredibly valuable and accurate first-hand documentation of the tactics of some of the world’s most notorious insurgent groups. Inside Insurgency offers the reader a timely and intimate understanding of these movements, and explains the changing behavior of insurgent groups toward the civilians they claim to represent.
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    DOI: 10.18574/nyu/9780814795774.001.0001
    URL: https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9780814759554
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    Tropical Zion : General Trujillo, FDR, and the Jews of Sosúa (2009)
    Durham : Duke University Press | Berlin : Walter de Gruyter GmbH
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    ISBN: 9780822392057
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (480 p.) , 26 photos, 10 tables, 1 map
    Series Statement: American encounters/global interactions : 39
    DDC: 305.80097293
    Abstract: Seven hundred and fifty Jewish refugees fled Nazi Germany and founded the agricultural settlement of Sosúa in the Dominican Republic, then ruled by one of Latin America's most repressive dictators, General Rafael Trujillo. In Tropical Zion, Allen Wells, a distinguished historian and the son of a Sosúa settler, tells the compelling story of General Trujillo, Franklin Delano Roosevelt, and those fortunate pioneers who founded a successful employee-owned dairy cooperative on the north shore of the island.Why did a dictator admit these desperate refugees when so few nations would accept those fleeing fascism? Eager to mollify international critics after his army had massacred 15,000 unarmed Haitians, Trujillo sent representatives to Évian, France, in July, 1938 for a conference on refugees from Nazism. Proposed by FDR to deflect criticism from his administration's restrictive immigration policies, the Évian Conference proved an abject failure. The Dominican Republic was the only nation that agreed to open its doors. Obsessed with stemming the tide of Haitian migration across his nation's border, the opportunistic Trujillo sought to "whiten" the Dominican populace, welcoming Jewish refugees who were themselves subject to racist scorn in Europe.The Roosevelt administration sanctioned the Sosúa colony. Since the United States did not accept Jewish refugees in significant numbers, it encouraged Latin America to do so. That prodding, paired with FDR's overriding preoccupation with fighting fascism, strengthened U.S. relations with Latin American dictatorships for decades to come. Meanwhile, as Jewish organizations worked to get Jews out of Europe, discussions about the fate of worldwide Jewry exposed fault lines between Zionists and Non-Zionists. Throughout his discussion of these broad dynamics, Wells weaves vivid narratives about the founding of Sosúa, the original settlers and their families, and the life of the unconventional beach-front colony.
    DOI: 10.1515/9780822392057
    URL: https://doi.org/10.1515/9780822392057?locatt=mode:legacy
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    Still Jewish : A History of Women and Intermarriage in America (2009)
    New York, NY : New York University Press | Berlin : Walter de Gruyter GmbH
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    ISBN: 9780814759615
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource
    DDC: 306.8430882960973
    Abstract: Over the last century, American Jews married outside their religion at increasing rates. By closely examining the intersection of intermarriage and gender across the twentieth century, Keren R. McGinity describes the lives of Jewish women who intermarried while placing their decisions in historical context. The first comprehensive history of these intermarried women, Still Jewish is a multigenerational study combining in-depth personal interviews and an astute analysis of how interfaith relationships and intermarriage were portrayed in the mass media, advice manuals, and religious community-generated literature.Still Jewish dismantles assumptions that once a Jew intermarries, she becomes fully assimilated into the majority Christian population, religion, and culture. Rather than becoming “lost” to the Jewish community, women who intermarried later in the century were more likely to raise their children with strong ties to Judaism than women who intermarried earlier in the century. Bringing perennially controversial questions of Jewish identity, continuity, and survival to the forefront of the discussion, Still Jewish addresses topics of great resonance in the modern Jewish community and beyond.
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    DOI: 10.18574/nyu/9780814757307.001.0001
    URL: https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9780814759615
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    Missing Bodies : The Politics of Visibility (2009)
    New York, NY : New York University Press | Berlin : Walter de Gruyter GmbH
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    ISBN: 9780814772980
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource
    Series Statement: Biopolitics 2
    DDC: 306.4
    Abstract: We know more about the physical body—how it begins, how it responds to illness, even how it decomposes—than ever before. Yet not all bodies are created equal, some bodies clearly count more than others, and some bodies are not recognized at all. In Missing Bodies, Monica J. Casper and Lisa Jean Moore explore the surveillance, manipulations, erasures, and visibility of the body in the twenty-first century. The authors examine bodies, both actual and symbolic, in a variety of arenas: pornography, fashion, sports, medicine, photography, cinema, sex work, labor, migration, medical tourism, and war. This new politicsof visibility can lead to the overexposure of some bodies—Lance Armstrong, Jessica Lynch—and to the near invisibility of others—dead Iraqi civilians, illegal immigrants, the victims of HIV/AIDS and "natural" disasters.Missing Bodies presents a call for a new, engaged way of seeing and recovering bodies in a world that routinely, often strategically,obscures or erases them. It poses difficult, even startling questions: Why did it take so long for the United States media to begin telling stories about the "falling bodies" of 9/11? Why has the United States government refused to allow photographs or filming of flag-draped coffins carrying the bodies of soldiers who are dying in Iraq? Why are the bodies of girls and women so relentlessly sexualized? By examining the cultural politics at work in such disappearances and inclusions of the physical body the authors show how the social, medical and economic consequences of visibility can reward or undermine privilege in society.
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    DOI: 10.18574/nyu/9780814772980.001.0001
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    Body Panic : Gender, Health, and the Selling of Fitness (2009)
    New York, NY : New York University Press | Berlin : Walter de Gruyter GmbH
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    ISBN: 9780814785256
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource
    DDC: 306.4/613
    Abstract: Are you ripped? Do you need to work on your abs? Do you know your ideal body weight? Your body fat index? Increasingly, Americans are being sold on a fitness ideal - not just thin but toned, not just muscular but cut - that is harder and harder to reach. In Body Panic, Shari L. Dworkin and Faye Linda Wachs ask why. How did these particular body types come to be “fit”? And how is it that having an unfit, or “bad,” body gets conflated with being an unfit, or “bad,” citizen?Dworkin and Wachs head to the newsstand for this study, examining ten years worth of men’s and women’s health and fitness magazines to determine the ways in which bodies are “made” in today’s culture. They dissect the images, the workouts, and the ideology being sold, as well as the contemporary links among health, morality, citizenship, and identity that can be read on these pages. While women and body image are often studied together, Body Panic considers both women’s and men’s bodies side-by-side and over time in order to offer a more in-depth understanding of this pervasive cultural trend.
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    DOI: 10.18574/nyu/9780814785256.001.0001
    URL: https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9780814785256
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    Things Fall Away : Philippine Historical Experience and the Makings of Globalization (2009)
    Durham : Duke University Press | Berlin : Walter de Gruyter GmbH
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    ISBN: 9780822392446
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (496 p.)
    Edition: 2009
    Series Statement: A John Hope Franklin Center Book
    DDC: 305.5/609599
    Abstract: In Things Fall Away, Neferti X. M. Tadiar offers a new paradigm for understanding politics and globalization. Her analysis illuminates both the power of Filipino subaltern experience to shape social and economic realities and the critical role of the nation’s writers and poets in that process. Through close readings of poems, short stories, and novels brought into conversation with scholarship in anthropology, sociology, politics, and economics, Tadiar demonstrates how the devalued experiences of the Philippines’ vast subaltern populations—experiences that “fall away” from the attention of mainstream and progressive accounts of the global capitalist present—help to create the material conditions of social life that feminists, urban activists, and revolutionaries seek to transform. Reading these “fallout” experiences as vital yet overlooked forms of political agency, Tadiar offers a new and provocative analysis of the unrecognized productive forces at work in global trends such as the growth of migrant domestic labor, the emergence of postcolonial “civil society,” and the “democratization” of formerly authoritarian nations.Tadiar treats the historical experiences articulated in feminist, urban protest, and revolutionary literatures of the 1960s–90s as “cultural software” for the transformation of dominant social relations. She considers feminist literature in relation to the feminization of labor in the 1970s, when between 300,000 and 500,000 prostitutes were working in the areas around U.S. military bases, and in the 1980s and 1990s, when more than five million Filipinas left the country to toil as maids, nannies, nurses, and sex workers. She reads urban protest literature in relation to authoritarian modernization and crony capitalism, and she reevaluates revolutionary literature’s constructions of the heroic revolutionary subject and the messianic masses, probing these social movements’ unexhausted cultural resources for radical change.
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    DOI: 10.1515/9780822392446
    URL: https://doi.org/10.1515/9780822392446
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    Race, Ethnicity, and Power in Ecuador : The Manipulation of Mestiza (2009)
    Boulder : Lynne Rienner Publishers | Berlin : Walter de Gruyter GmbH
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    ISBN: 9781626371569
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (319 p.)
    Edition: 2022
    DDC: 305.5 208905980866
    Abstract: How do today's Latin American elites understand and relate to ideas of power, race, ethnicity, and mestizaje? And what impact does that understanding have on the dynamics of socioeconomic development in ethnically mixed societies? Focusing on the case of Ecuador-a country struggling to recast its mestizo identity in the aftermath of dramatic indigenous uprisings-Karem Roitman reveals how the urban upper classes represent their ethnicity in ways that both hide discriminatory practices and impede social and economic mobility for the "other."...
    DOI: 10.1515/9781626371569
    URL: https://doi.org/10.1515/9781626371569
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    Deaf Subjects : Between Identities and Places (2009)
    New York, NY : New York University Press | Berlin : Walter de Gruyter GmbH
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    ISBN: 9780814739006
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource , 30 black and white illustrations
    Series Statement: Cultural Front 12
    DDC: 305.9082
    Keywords: Electronic books
    Abstract: In this probing exploration of what it means to be deaf, Brenda Brueggemann goes beyond any simple notion of identity politics to explore the very nature of identity itself. Looking at a variety of cultural texts, she brings her fascination with borders and between-places to expose and enrich our understanding of how deafness embodies itself in the world, in the visual, and in language.Taking on the creation of the modern deaf subject, Brueggemann ranges from the intersections of gender and deafness in the work of photographers Mary and Frances Allen at the turn of the last century, to the state of the field of Deaf Studies at the beginning of our new century. She explores the power and potential of American Sign Language—wedged, as she sees it, between letter-bound language and visual ways of learning—and argues for a rhetorical approach and digital future for ASL literature.The narration of deaf lives through writing becomes a pivot around which to imagine how digital media and documentary can be used to convey deaf life stories. Finally, she expands our notion of diversity within the deaf identity itself, takes on the complex relationship between deaf and hearing people, and offers compelling illustrations of the intertwined, and sometimes knotted, nature of individual and collective identities within Deaf culture.
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    DOI: 10.18574/nyu/9780814799666.001.0001
    URL: https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9780814739006
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    Chiefs, Scribes, and Ethnographers : Kuna Culture from Inside and Out (2009)
    Austin : University of Texas Press | Berlin : Walter de Gruyter GmbH
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    ISBN: 9780292793477
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource
    Edition: 2021
    DDC: 305.897/83
    Keywords: Cuna Indians Historiography ; Cuna Indians Public opinion ; Cuna Indians Social life and customs ; Electronic books ; Ethnology Authorship ; Indian anthropologists ; Indians in literature ; Participant observation ; Public opinion ; SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural & Social
    Abstract: The Kuna of Panama, today one of the best known indigenous peoples of Latin America, moved over the course of the twentieth century from orality and isolation towards literacy and an active engagement with the nation and the world. Recognizing the fascination their culture has held for many outsiders, Kuna intellectuals and villagers have collaborated actively with foreign anthropologists to counter anti-Indian prejudice with positive accounts of their people, thus becoming the agents as well as subjects of ethnography. One team of chiefs and secretaries, in particular, independently produced a series of historical and cultural texts, later published in Sweden, that today still constitute the foundation of Kuna ethnography. As a study of the political uses of literacy, of western representation and indigenous counter-representation, and of the ambivalent inter-cultural dialogue at the heart of ethnography, Chiefs, Scribes, and Ethnographers addresses key issues in contemporary anthropology. It is the story of an extended ethnographic encounter, one involving hundreds of active participants on both sides and continuing today.
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    DOI: 10.7560/721104
    URL: https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9780292793477
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    Breadwinning Daughters : Young Working Women in a Depression-Era City, 1929-1939 (2009)
    Toronto : University of Toronto Press | Berlin : Walter de Gruyter GmbH
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    ISBN: 9781442685253
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (240 p.)
    Edition: [2020]
    DDC: 305.242/20971354109043
    Abstract: As one of the most difficult periods of the twentieth century, the Great Depression left few Canadians untouched. Using more than eighty interviews with women who lived and worked in Toronto in the 1930s, Breadwinning Daughters examines the consequences of these years for women in their homes and workplaces, and in the city's court rooms and dance halls.In this insightful account, Katrina Srigley argues that young women were central to the labour market and family economies of Depression-era Toronto. Oral histories give voice to women from a range of cultural and economic backgrounds, and challenge readers to consider how factors such as race, gender, class, and marital status shaped women's lives and influenced their job options, family arrangements, and leisure activities. Breadwinning Daughters brings to light previously forgotten and unstudied experiences and illustrates how women found various ways to negotiate the burdens and joys of the 1930s.
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    DOI: 10.3138/9781442685253
    URL: https://doi.org/10.3138/9781442685253
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    Sapphistries : A Global History of Love between Women (2009)
    New York, NY : New York University Press | Berlin : Walter de Gruyter GmbH
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    ISBN: 9780814777459
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource
    Series Statement: Intersections 15
    DDC: 306.76/6309
    Abstract: From the ancient poet Sappho to tombois in contemporary Indonesia, women throughout history and around the globe have desired, loved, and had sex with other women. In beautiful prose, Sapphistries tells their stories, capturing the multitude of ways that diverse societies have shaped female same-sex sexuality across time and place.Leila J. Rupp reveals how, from the time of the very earliest societies, the possibility of love between women has been known, even when it is feared, ignored, or denied. We hear women in the sex-segregated spaces of convents and harems whispering words of love. We see women beginning to find each other on the streets of London and Amsterdam, in the aristocratic circles of Paris, in the factories of Shanghai. We find women’s desire and love for women meeting the light of day as Japanese schoolgirls fall in love, and lesbian bars and clubs spread from 1920s Berlin to 1950s Buffalo. And we encounter a world of difference in the twenty-first century, as transnational concepts and lesbian identities meet local understandings of how two women might love each other.Giving voice to words from the mouths and pens of women, and from men’s prohibitions, reports, literature, art, imaginings, pornography, and court cases, Rupp also creatively employs fiction to imagine possibilities when there is no historical evidence. Sapphistries combines lyrical narrative with meticulous historical research, providing an eminently readable and uniquely sweeping story of desire, love, and sex between women around the globe from the beginning of time to the present.
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    DOI: 10.18574/nyu/9780814777459.001.0001
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    Die Alten Thraker Ein ethnologische Untersuchung (2009)
    Piscataway, NJ : Gorgias Press | Berlin : Walter de Gruyter GmbH
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    ISBN: 9781463215101
    Language: German
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (303 p.)
    DDC: 305.8
    Abstract: Tomaschek's seminal study on the Thracians has become a volume difficult to locate. This edition is the rarer first volume of his explorations of the ethnology of this poorly understood culture. Examining the tribes within the Thracian region, Tomaschek also looks at the traits of the Thracians in general. Consideration of the language is also given, including the names of gods and cultic terms. Personal names, regional and ethnic names, and the terms for mountains, hills, rivers, and seas are also part of the lexical study. Written in German, this historic study is now once again readily accessible to scholars.
    DOI: 10.31826/9781463215101
    URL: https://doi.org/10.31826/9781463215101
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    Blurring the Color Line : The New Chance for a More Integrated America (2009)
    Cambridge, MA : Harvard University Press | Berlin : Walter de Gruyter GmbH
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    ISBN: 9780674053489
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (320 p.)
    Edition: 2022
    Series Statement: The Nathan I
    DDC: 305.800973
    Abstract: Richard Alba argues that the social cleavages that separate Americans into distinct, unequal ethno-racial groups could narrow dramatically in the coming decades. In Blurring the Color Line, Alba explores a future in which socially mobile minorities could blur stark boundaries and gain much more control over the social expression of racial differences.  ...
    DOI: 10.4159/9780674053489
    URL: https://doi.org/10.4159/9780674053489
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    Más es más : Sociedad y cultura en la España democrática, 1986-2008 (2009)
    Frankfurt am Main : Vervuert Verlagsgesellschaft | Berlin : Walter de Gruyter GmbH
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    ISBN: 9783954870363
    Language: Spanish
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource
    Series Statement: La Casa de la Riqueza 13
    DDC: 306.0946
    Keywords: Geschichte 1986-2008 ; Sozialgeschichte 1986-2008 ; Kultur ; Spanien ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Aufsatzsammlung
    Abstract: Los estudios aquí reunidos exploran áreas como el cine, la arquitectura, la política, la música popular, el teatro, la industria editorial, los medios de comunicación y la literatura en la España de los dos últimos decenios.
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    DOI: 10.31819/9783954870363
    URN: urn:nbn:de:101:1-2019102913345202937191
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    Final Acts : Death, Dying, and the Choices We Make (2009)
    New Brunswick, NJ : Rutgers University Press | Berlin : Walter de Gruyter GmbH
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    ISBN: 9780813549088
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (344 p.)
    DDC: 306.9
    Abstract: Today most people die gradually, from incremental illnesses, rather than from the heart attacks or fast-moving diseases that killed earlier generations. Given this new reality, the essays in Final Acts explore how we can make informed and caring end-of-life choices for ourselves and for those we loveùand what can happen without such planning. Contributors include patients, caretakers, physicians, journalists, lawyers, social workers, educators, hospital administrators, academics, psychologists, and a poet, and among them are ethicists, religious believers, and nonbelievers. Some write moving, personal accounts of "good" or 'bad" deaths; others examine the ethical, social, and political implications of slow dying. Essays consider death from natural causes, suicide, and aid-in-dying (assisted suicide). Writing in a style free of technical jargon, the contributors discuss documents that should be prepared (health proxy, do-not-resuscitate order, living will, power of attorney); decision-making (over medical interventions, life support, hospice and palliative care, aid-in-dying, treatment location, speaking for those who can no longer express their will); and the roles played by religion, custom, family, friends, caretakers, money, the medical establishment, and the government. For those who yearn for some measure of control over death, the essayists in Final Acts, from very different backgrounds and with different personal and professional experiences around death and dying, offer insight and hope.
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    DOI: 10.36019/9780813549088
    URL: https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9780813549088
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    Needed by Nobody : Homelessness and Humanness in Post-Socialist Russia (2009)
    Ithaca, N.Y. : Cornell University Press | Berlin : Walter de Gruyter GmbH
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    ISBN: 9780801458798
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource
    Edition: [2016]
    Series Statement: Culture and Society after Socialism
    DDC: 305.5/6920947
    Abstract: Homelessness became a conspicuous facet of Russian cityscapes only in the 1990s, when the Soviet criminalization of vagrancy and similar offenses was abolished. In spite of the host of social and economic problems confronting Russia in the demise of Soviet power, the social dislocation endured by increasing numbers of people went largely unrecognized by the state.Being homeless carries a special burden in Russia, where a permanent address is the precondition for all civil rights and social benefits and where homelessness is often regarded as a result of laziness and drinking, rather than external factors. In Needed by Nobody, the anthropologist Tova Höjdestrand offers a nuanced portrait of homelessness in St. Petersburg. Based on ethnographic work at railway stations, soup kitchens, and other places where the homeless gather, Höjdestrand describes the material and mental world of this marginalized population.They are, she observes, "not needed" in two senses. The state considers them, in effect, as noncitizens. At the same time they stand outside the traditionally intimate social networks that are the real safety net of life in postsocialist Russia. As a result, they are deprived of the prerequisites for dealing with others in ways that they themselves value as "decent" and "human." Höjdestrand investigates processes of social exclusion as well as the remaining "world of waste": things, tasks, and places that are wanted by nobody else and on which "human leftovers" are forced to survive.In this bleak context, Höjdestrand takes up the intimate worlds of the homeless-their social relationships, dirt and cleanliness, and physical appearance. Her interviews with homeless people show that the indigent have a very good idea of what others think of them and that they are liable to reproduce the stigma that is attached to them even as they attempt to negotiate it. This unique and often moving portrait of life on the margins of society in the new Russia ultimately reveals how human dignity may be retained in the absence of its very preconditions.
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    DOI: 10.7591/9780801458798
    URL: https://doi.org/10.7591/9780801458798
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    Unbedachtes Wohnen : Lebensformen an verdeckten Rändern der Gesellschaft (2009)
    Bielefeld : transcript | Berlin : Walter de Gruyter GmbH
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    ISBN: 9783839410059
    Language: German
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource
    Series Statement: Kultur- und Medientheorie
    DDC: 307.3360943
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    Keywords: Randgruppe ; Kreativität ; Alter ; Wohnen ; Soziale Situation ; Lebensform ; Deutschland ; Fallstudiensammlung
    DOI: 10.1515/9783839410059
    URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1515/9783839410059?locatt=mode:legacy
    URL: https://www.degruyter.com/viewbooktoc/product/461363
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    Absent Citizens : Disability Politics and Policy in Canada (2009)
    Toronto : University of Toronto Press | Berlin : Walter de Gruyter GmbH
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    ISBN: 9781442687301
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (240 p.)
    Edition: [2020]
    DDC: 305.9080971
    Abstract: Disability exists in the shadows of public awareness and at the periphery of policy making. People with disabilities are, in many respects, missing from the theories and practices of social rights, political participation, employment, and civic membership. Absent Citizens brings to light these chronic deficiencies in Canadian society and emphasizes the effects that these omissions have on the lives of citizens with disabilities.Drawing together elements from feminist studies, political science, public administration, sociology, and urban studies, Michael J. Prince examines mechanisms of exclusion and inclusion, public attitudes on disability, and policy-making processes in the context of disability. Absent Citizens also considers social activism and civic engagements by people with disabilities and disability community organizations, highlighting presence rather than absence and advocating both inquiry and action to ameliorate the marginalization of an often overlooked segment of the Canadian population.
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    DOI: 10.3138/9781442687301
    URL: https://doi.org/10.3138/9781442687301
    URL: https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9781442687301
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    Intending Scotland : Explorations in Scottish Culture since the Enlightenment (2009)
    Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press | Berlin : Walter de Gruyter GmbH
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    ISBN: 9780748679331
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (288 p.)
    Edition: 2022
    DDC: 306.094110904
    Abstract: Intending Scotland reconsiders our understanding of the development of Scottish culture from the Enlightenment to the present day. The book recovers and reconnects Scottish thinkers from Hume and Reid in the eighteenth century, to Andrew Seth, Norman Kemp Smith and John Macmurray in the late nineteenth and twentieth centuries. It contextualises their work in relation to the development of Scottish anthropology and psychology, from which emerged, in the work of Ian Suttie and R. D. Laing, some of the most significant challenges to Freudian psychology. Craig uses this Scottish tradition to challenge theories of the nation over the last thirty years, providing critiques of Bhabha's 'hybridity' and of Anderson's 'imagined community', and of theories of 'the Other' within a postcolonial framework. Ranging over Scotland's intellectual and cultural history across three centuries, taking in gardens and gardeners as well as historians and historiographers, scientists and engineers as well as philosophers and psychologists, Intending Scotland presents a reinterpretation of Scottish cultural life as radical as the developments in the nation's contemporary politics. Key FeaturesChallenges negative conceptions of the Scottish cultural past and of the failures of Scotland's cultural developmentSets Scotland's recent political development in the context of its cultural achievements in the twentieth centuryDeals with major figures in Scottish culture - Hume, Reid - and shows how our modern understanding of them is dependent on the work of later Scottish thinkersEngages with prominent critics in contemporary theory -- Anderson, Derrida, Bhabha, Kearney -- and develops a critique of them from a Scottish perspective.
    DOI: 10.1515/9780748679331
    URL: https://doi.org/10.1515/9780748679331
    URL: https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9780748679331
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    Cultural Styles of Knowledge Transmission : Essays in Honour of Ad Borsboom (2009)
    Amsterdam : Amsterdam University Press | Berlin : Walter de Gruyter GmbH
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    ISBN: 9789048521142
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource
    DDC: 301
    Keywords: Aufsatzsammlung ; Festschrift ; Aufsatzsammlung
    Abstract: Anthropologist Dr Ad Borsboom, chair of Pacific Studies at Radboud University Nijmegen, devoted his academic career from 1972 onwards to the transmission of cultural knowledge. Borsboom handed the insights he acquired during many years of fieldwork among Australian Aborigines on to other academics, students and the general public. This collection of essays by his colleagues, specializing in cultures from across the globe, focuses on knowledge transmission. The contributions deal with local forms of education or pedagogics, the learning experiences of fieldwork and the nexus of status and education. Whereas some essays are reflexive, others are personal in nature. But all of the authors are fascinated by the divergent ways in which people handle 'knowledge'. The volume provides readers with respectful representations of other cultures and their distinct epistemologies.
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    DOI: 10.1515/9789048521142
    URL: https://doi.org/10.1515/9789048521142
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    Polygamy and Sublime Passion : Sexuality in China on the Verge of Modernity (2009)
    Honolulu : University of Hawaii Press | Berlin : Walter de Gruyter GmbH
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    ISBN: 9780824837648
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource
    DDC: 306.84/23095109034
    Abstract: For centuries of Chinese history, polygamy and prostitution were closely linked practices that legitimized the "polygynous male," the man with multiple sexual partners. Despite their strict hierarchies, these practices also addressed fundamental antagonisms in sexual relations in serious and constructive ways. Qing fiction abounds in stories of female resistance and superiority. Women—main wives, concubines, and prostitutes—were adept at exerting control and gaining status for themselves, while men indulged in elaborate fantasies about female power. In Polygamy and Sublime Passion, Keith McMahon introduces a new concept, "passive polygamy," to explain the unusual number of Qing stories in which women take charge of a man’s desires, turning him into an instrument of female will. To this he adds a story that haunted the institutions of polygamy and prostitution: the tale of "sublime passion," in which the main characters are a "remarkable" woman and her male lover.Throughout the book McMahon examines how polygamy, prostitution, and the story of sublime passion encountered the first stages of paradigmatic change in the nineteenth century, decades before the legal abolition of polygamy. By the end of the Qing dynasty in 1911, love stories were celebrating the exploits of street-smart prostitutes who fleeced gullible patrons in the bustling city of Shanghai. What do these characters have in common with their early counterparts as men and women became inhabitants of a new city in an era flooded with ideas from radically foreign sources—all of this taking place in a time of economic and cultural dislocation? McMahon reads late Qing love stories in a historically symbolic way, taking them as part of a larger fantasy of Chinese civilization undergoing a fundamental crisis. The polygamous marriage and the affairs of the brothel became metaphorical staging grounds for portraying the destiny of China on the verge of modernity. Finally, McMahon speculates on the changes polygamous sexuality underwent after the Qing dynasty ended and whether it exerted a residual influence in later times.Polygamy and Sublime Passion will undoubtedly engage those interested in Chinese society, culture, literature, and gender studies as well as comparativists seeking to understand the diverse responses to modernization around the world.
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    DOI: 10.1515/9780824837648
    URL: https://www.degruyter.com/doi/book/10.1515/9780824837648
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    Handbuch soziologische Theorien (2009)
    Wiesbaden : Springer VS
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    ISBN: 9783531916002
    Language: German
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (559 Seiten) , Diagramme
    Edition: 1. Auflage
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als
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    DDC: 305.8
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    Keywords: Soziologische Theorie ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Soziologische Theorie
    DOI: 10.1007/978-3-531-91600-2
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    The Diplomacy of Nationalism : The Six Companies and China's Policy toward Exclusion (2009)
    Honolulu : University of Hawaii Press | Berlin : Walter de Gruyter GmbH
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    ISBN: 9780824837570
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource
    DDC: 305.895/1079461
    Abstract: This is a striking, original portrait of the Chinese Six Companies (Zhonghua huiguan), or Chinese Consolidated Benevolent Association, the most prominent support organization for Chinese immigrants in the U.S. in the late nineteenth century. As a federation of "native-place associations" (huiguan) in California, the Six Companies responded to racist acts and legislation by organizing immigrant communities and employing effective diplomatic strategies against exclusion. Yucheng Qin substantiates recent arguments that Chinese immigrants were resourceful in fighting for their rights and, more importantly, he argues that through the Six Companies they created a political rhetoric and civic agenda that were then officially adopted by Qing court officials, who at first were unprepared for modern diplomacy. Out of necessity, these officials turned to the Six Companies for assistance and would in time adopt the tone and format of its programs during China’s turbulent transition from a tributary system to that of a modern nation-state.Eventually the Six Companies and Qing diplomats were defeated by a coalition of anti-Chinese interest groups, but their struggle produced a template for modern Chinese nationalism—a political identity that transcends native place—in nineteenth-century America. By redirecting our gaze beyond China to the Six Companies in California and back again, Yucheng Qin redefines the historical significance of the huiguan. The ingenuity of his approach lies in his close attention to the transnational experience of the Six Companies, which provides a feasible framework for linking its diplomatic activism with Chinese history as well as the history of Chinese Americans and Sino-American relations.The Diplomacy of Nationalism enlarges our view of the immigrant experience of Chinese in the U.S. by examining early Sino-American relations through the structure of Six Companies diplomacy as well as providing a better understanding of modern Chinese nationalism.
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    DOI: 10.1515/9780824837570
    URL: https://www.degruyter.com/doi/book/10.1515/9780824837570
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    Globalization and the Post-Creole Imagination : Notes on Fleeing the Plantation (2009)
    Durham : Duke University Press | Berlin : Walter de Gruyter GmbH
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    ISBN: 9780822392453
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (322 p.) , 3 figures
    Series Statement: A John Hope Franklin Center Book : 32
    DDC: 305.5/633089960729
    Abstract: Globalization and the Post-Creole Imagination is a major intervention into discussions of Caribbean practices gathered under the rubric of "creolization." Examining sociocultural, political, and economic transformations in the Caribbean, Michaeline A. Crichlow argues that creolization-culture-creating processes usually associated with plantation societies and with subordinate populations remaking the cultural forms of dominant groups-must be liberated from and expanded beyond plantations, and even beyond the black Atlantic, to include productions of "culture" wherever vulnerable populations live in situations of modern power inequalities, from regimes of colonialism to those of neoliberalism. Crichlow theorizes a concept of creolization that speaks to how individuals from historically marginalized groups refashion self, time, and place in multiple ways, from creating art to traveling in search of homes. Grounding her theory in the material realities of Caribbean peoples in the plantation era and the present, Crichlow contends that creolization and Creole subjectivity are constantly in flux, morphing in response to the changing conditions of modernity and creatively expressing a politics of place.Engaging with the thought of Michel Foucault, Michel Rolph-Trouillot, Achille Mbembe, Henri Lefebvre, Margaret Archer, Saskia Sassen, Pierre Bourdieu, and others, Crichlow argues for understanding creolization as a continual creative remaking of past and present moments to shape the future. She draws on sociology, philosophy, postcolonial studies, and cultural studies to illustrate how national histories are lived personally and how transnational experiences reshape individual lives and collective spaces. Critically extending Bourdieu's idea of habitus, she describes how contemporary Caribbean subjects remake themselves in and beyond the Caribbean region, challenging, appropriating, and subverting older, localized forms of creolization. In this book, Crichlow offers a nuanced understanding of how Creole citizens of the Caribbean have negotiated modern economies of power.
    DOI: 10.1515/9780822392453
    URL: https://doi.org/10.1515/9780822392453?locatt=mode:legacy
    URL: https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9780822392453
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    Glamour in the Pacific : Cultural Internationalism and Race Politics in the Women's Pan-Pacific (2009)
    Honolulu : University of Hawaii Press | Berlin : Walter de Gruyter GmbH
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    ISBN: 9780824862657
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource , 15 b&w images
    DDC: 305.4209182/3
    Abstract: Since its inception in 1928, the Pan-Pacific Women’s Association (PPWA) has witnessed and contributed to enormous changes in world and Pacific history. Operating out of Honolulu, this women’s network established a series of conferences that promoted social reform and an internationalist outlook through cultural exchange. For the many women attracted to the project—from China, Japan, the Pacific Islands, and the major settler colonies of the region—the association’s vision was enormously attractive, despite the fact that as individuals and national representatives they remained deeply divided by colonial histories.Glamour in the Pacific tells this multifaceted story by bringing together critical scholarship from across a wide range of fields, including cultural history, international relations and globalization, gender and empire, postcolonial studies, population and world health studies, world history, and transnational history. Early chapters consider the first PPWA conferences and the decolonizing process undergone by the association. Following World War II, a new generation of nonwhite women from decolonized and settler colonial nations began to claim leadership roles in the Association, challenging the often Eurocentric assumptions of women’s internationalism. In 1955 the first African American delegate brought to the fore questions about the relationship of U.S. race relations with the Pan-Pacific cultural internationalist project. The effects of cold war geopolitics on the ideal of international cooperation in the era of decolonization were also considered. The work concludes with a discussion of the revival of "East meets West" as a basis for world cooperation endorsed by the United Nations in 1958 and the overall contributions of the PPWA to world culture politics.The internationalist vision of the early twentieth century imagined a world in which race and empire had been relegated to the past. Significant numbers of women from around the Pacific brought this shared vision—together with their concerns for peace, social progress and cooperation—to the lively, even glamorous, political experiment of the Pan-Pacific Women’s Association. Fiona Paisley tells the stories of this extraordinary group of women and illuminates the challenges and rewards of their politics of antiracism—one that still resonates today.
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    DOI: 10.1515/9780824862657
    URL: https://www.degruyter.com/doi/book/10.1515/9780824862657
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    African American urban history since World War II (2009)
    Chicago : University of Chicago Press | Berlin : Walter de Gruyter GmbH
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    ISBN: 9780226465128
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (552 Seiten) , Illustrationen
    Series Statement: Historical studies of urban America
    DDC: 305.800973
    Keywords: Electronic books History ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Aufsatzsammlung
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    DOI: 10.7208/9780226465128
    URL: https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9780226465128
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    Conquest and Pestilence in the Early Spanish Philippines (2009)
    Honolulu : University of Hawaii Press | Berlin : Walter de Gruyter GmbH
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    ISBN: 9780824861971
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource , 16 maps, 5 b&w images
    DDC: 304.609599/0903
    Abstract: Scholars have long assumed that Spanish colonial rule had only a limited demographic impact on the Philippines. Filipinos, they believed, had acquired immunity to Old World diseases prior to Spanish arrival; conquest was thought to have been more benign than what took place in the Americas because of more enlightened colonial policies introduced by Philip II. Conquest and Pestilence in the Early Spanish Philippines illuminates the demographic history of the Spanish Philippines in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries and, in the process, challenges these assumptions.In this provocative new work, Linda Newson convincingly demonstrates that the Filipino population suffered a significant decline in the early colonial period. Newson argues that the sparse population of the islands meant that Old World diseases could not become endemic in pre-Spanish times. She also shows that the initial conquest of the Philippines was far bloodier than has often been supposed and that subsequent Spanish demands for tribute, labor, and land brought socioeconomic transformations and depopulation that were prolonged beyond the early conquest years. Comparisons are made with the impact of Spanish colonial rule in the Americas.Newson adopts a regional approach and examines critically each major area in Luzon and the Visayas in turn. Building on a wide range of primary and secondary sources, she proposes a new estimate for the population of the Visayas and Luzon of 1.57 million in 1565—slightly higher than that suggested by previous studies—and calculates that by the mid-seventeenth century this figure may have fallen by about two-thirds. Based on extensive archival research conducted in secular and missionary archives in the Philippines, Spain, and elsewhere, Conquest and Pestilence in the Early Spanish Philippines is an exemplary contribution to our understanding of the formative influences on demographic change in premodern Southeast Asian society and the history of the early Spanish Philippines.
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    DOI: 10.1515/9780824861971
    URL: https://www.degruyter.com/doi/book/10.1515/9780824861971
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    The Binding Tie : Chinese Intergenerational Relations in Modern Singapore (2009)
    Honolulu : University of Hawaii Press | Berlin : Walter de Gruyter GmbH
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    ISBN: 9780824864620
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource , 8 b&w images, 1 map, 1 chart
    DDC: 306.87089/95105957
    Abstract: Since gaining independence in 1965, Singapore has become the most trade-intensive economy in the world and the richest country in Southeast Asia. This transformation has been accompanied by the emergence of a deep generational divide. More complex than simple disparities of education or changes in income and consumption patterns, this growing gulf encompasses language, religion, and social memory. The Binding Tie explores how expectations and obligations between generations are being challenged, reworked, and reaffirmed in the face of far-reaching societal change. The family remains a pivotal feature of Singaporean society and the primary unit of support. The author focuses on the middle generation, caught between elderly parents who grew up speaking dialect and their own children who speak English and Mandarin. In analyzing the forces that bind these generations together, she deploys the idea of an intergenerational "contract," which serves as a metaphor for customary obligations and expectations. She convincingly examines the many different levels at which the contract operates within Singaporean families and offers striking examples of the meaningful ways in which intergenerational support and transactions are performed, resisted, and renegotiated. Her rich material, drawn from ethnographic fieldwork among middle-class Chinese, provides insights into the complex interplay of fragmenting and integrating forces.The Binding Tie makes a critical contribution to the study of intergenerational relations in modern, rapidly changing societies and conveys a vivid and nuanced picture of the challenges Singaporean families face in today’s hypermodern world. It will be of interest to researchers and students in a range of fields, including anthropology, sociology, Asian studies, demography, development studies, and family studies.
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    DOI: 10.1515/9780824864620
    URL: https://www.degruyter.com/doi/book/10.1515/9780824864620
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    Slaves to Fashion : Black Dandyism and the Styling of Black Diasporic Identity (2009)
    Durham : Duke University Press | Berlin : Walter de Gruyter GmbH
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    ISBN: 9780822391517
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (408 p.) , 42 illustrations
    Series Statement: e-Duke books scholarly collection : 33
    DDC: 305.38/896073
    Abstract: Slaves to Fashion is a pioneering cultural history of the black dandy, from his emergence in Enlightenment England to his contemporary incarnations in the cosmopolitan art worlds of London and New York. It is populated by sartorial impresarios such as Julius Soubise, a freed slave who sometimes wore diamond-buckled, red-heeled shoes as he circulated through the social scene of eighteenth-century London, and Yinka Shonibare, a prominent Afro-British artist who not only styles himself as a fop but also creates ironic commentaries on black dandyism in his work. Interpreting performances and representations of black dandyism in particular cultural settings and literary and visual texts, Monica L. Miller emphasizes the importance of sartorial style to black identity formation in the Atlantic diaspora.Dandyism was initially imposed on black men in eighteenth-century England, as the Atlantic slave trade and an emerging culture of conspicuous consumption generated a vogue in dandified black servants. "Luxury slaves" tweaked and reworked their uniforms, and were soon known for their sartorial novelty and sometimes flamboyant personalities. Tracing the history of the black dandy forward to contemporary celebrity incarnations such as Andre 3000 and Sean Combs, Miller explains how black people became arbiters of style and how they have historically used the dandy's signature tools-clothing, gesture, and wit-to break down limiting identity markers and propose new ways of fashioning political and social possibility in the black Atlantic world. With an aplomb worthy of her iconographic subject, she considers the black dandy in relation to nineteenth-century American literature and drama, W. E. B. Du Bois's reflections on black masculinity and cultural nationalism, the modernist aesthetics of the Harlem Renaissance, and representations of black cosmopolitanism in contemporary visual art.
    DOI: 10.1515/9780822391517
    URL: https://doi.org/10.1515/9780822391517?locatt=mode:legacy
    URL: https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9780822391517
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    Fertile Matters : The Politics of Mexican-Origin Women's Reproduction (2008)
    Austin : University of Texas Press | Berlin : Walter de Gruyter GmbH
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    ISBN: 9780292794566
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource
    Edition: 2021
    DDC: 305.48868073
    Keywords: POLITICAL SCIENCE / Public Policy / Social Policy
    Abstract: While the stereotype of the persistently pregnant Mexican-origin woman is longstanding, in the past fifteen years her reproduction has been targeted as a major social problem for the United States. Due to fear-fueled news reports and public perceptions about the changing composition of the nation's racial and ethnic makeup—the so-called Latinization of America—the reproduction of Mexican immigrant women has become a central theme in contemporary U. S. politics since the early 1990s. In this exploration, Elena R. Gutiérrez considers these public stereotypes of Mexican American and Mexican immigrant women as "hyper-fertile baby machines" who "breed like rabbits." She draws on social constructionist perspectives to examine the historical and sociopolitical evolution of these racial ideologies, and the related beliefs that Mexican-origin families are unduly large and that Mexican American and Mexican immigrant women do not use birth control. Using the coercive sterilization of Mexican-origin women in Los Angeles as a case study, Gutiérrez opens a dialogue on the racial politics of reproduction, and how they have developed for women of Mexican origin in the United States. She illustrates how the ways we talk and think about reproduction are part of a system of racial domination that shapes social policy and affects individual women's lives.
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    DOI: 10.7560/716810
    URL: https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9780292794566
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    Globalization and National Autonomy : The Experience of Malaysia (2008)
    Singapore : ISEAS Publishing | Berlin : Walter de Gruyter GmbH
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    ISBN: 9789812308184
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource
    DDC: 303.482595
    Abstract: "Malaysia has long had an ambivalent relationship to globalization. A shining example of export-led growth and the positive role for foreign investment, the country's political leadership has also expressed skepticism about the prevailing international political and economic order. In this compelling collection, Nelson, Meerman and Rahman Embong bring together a group of Malaysian and foreign scholars to dissect the effects of globalization on Malaysian development over the long-run. They consider the full spectrum of issues from economic and social policy to new challenges from transnational Islam, and are unafraid of voicing skepticism where the effects of globalization are overblown. Malaysia is surprisingly understudied in comparative context; this volume remedies that, and provides an overview of a country undergoing important political change." -- Stephan Haggard, Krause Professor, Graduate School of International Relations and Pacific Studies, University of California, San Diego "Half a century since Malayan independence in 1957, this collection of essays provides a welcome assessment of post-colonial, especially recent Malaysian policies on various fronts -- development, 'looking East', 1997-98 crisis management, inter-ethnic redistribution, poverty reduction, trade, education, healthcare, globalization, Islam and national culture. This volume is a useful compendium for anyone seeking a broad overview of recent policy challenges and debates." -- Jomo Kwame Sundaram, United Nations Assistant Secretary General for Economic Development and formerly Professor of Economics at the Faculty of Economics & Administration, Universiti Malaya "What is the state of a globalizing Malaysia? In the same way that a group from Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia (UKM) in the 1990s entered into fundamental debates about Malaysia's future, here two decades later, another UKM research group -- fellows from the Institute of Malaysian and International Studies (IKMAS) -- have gone to the heart of the Malaysian paradox. Taking the New Economic Policy and the post-independence racial tension as their twin touch points, the group systematically and sensitively explore the paradox of a highly globalized national economy mediated by a developmentalist and interventionist state. They coherently confront difficult issues from crony capitalism and poverty reduction to globalizing Islam and the now largely forgotten National Culture Policy. In doing so, they help us understand the complexities of political autonomy in a globalizing world." -- Paul James, Professor & Academic Director, Globalism Research Centre, RMIT, Melbourne...
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    DOI: 10.1355/9789812308184
    URL: https://doi.org/10.1355/9789812308184
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    Conflict, Violence, and Displacement in Indonesia (2008)
    Ithaca, NY : Cornell University Press | Berlin : Walter de Gruyter GmbH
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    ISBN: 9781501719233
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource , 40 illustrations
    Edition: [2018]
    DDC: 303.6/09598
    Abstract: This volume foregrounds the dynamics of displacement and the experiences of internal refugees uprooted by conflict and violence in Indonesia. Contributors examine internal displacement in the context of militarized conflict and violence in East Timor, Aceh, and Papua, and in other parts of Outer Island Indonesia during the transition from authoritarian rule. The volume also explores official and humanitarian discourses on displacement and their significance for the politics of representation.
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    DOI: 10.7591/9781501719233
    URL: https://www.degruyter.com/doi/book/10.7591/9781501719233
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    Muslim American Youth : Understanding Hyphenated Identities through Multiple Methods (2008)
    New York, NY : New York University Press | Berlin : Walter de Gruyter GmbH
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    ISBN: 9780814708859
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource
    Series Statement: Qualitative Studies in Psychology 12
    DDC: 305.697073
    Abstract: Since the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001, and the subsequent “war on terror,” growing up Muslim in the U.S. has become a far more challenging task for young people. They must contend with popular cultural representations of Muslim-men-as-terrorists and Muslim-women-as-oppressed, the suspicious gaze of peers, teachers, and strangers, and police, and the fierce embodiment of fears in their homes.With great attention to quantitative and qualitative detail, the authors provide heartbreaking and funny stories of discrimination and resistance, delivering hard to ignore statistical evidence of moral exclusion for young people whose lives have been situated on the intimate fault lines of global conflict, and who carry international crises in their backpacks and in their souls.The volume offers a critical conceptual framework to aid in understanding Muslim American identity formation processes, a framework which can also be applied to other groups of marginalized and immigrant youth. In addition, through their innovative data analytic methods that creatively mix youth drawings, intensive individual interviews, focused group discussions, and culturally sensitive survey items, the authors provide an antidote to “qualitative vs. quantitative” arguments that have unnecessarily captured much time and energy in psychology and other behavioral sciences.Muslim American Youth provides a much-needed road map for those seeking to understand how Muslim youth and other groups of immigrant youth negotiate their identities as Americans.
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    DOI: 10.18574/nyu/9780814708859.001.0001
    URL: https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9780814708859
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    Chicana Sexuality and Gender : Cultural Refiguring in Literature, Oral History, and Art (2008)
    Durham : Duke University Press | Berlin : Walter de Gruyter GmbH
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    ISBN: 9780822381228
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (312 p.) , 15 illustrations
    Series Statement: Latin America otherwise : languages, empires, nations : 46
    DDC: 305.48/86872073
    Abstract: Since the 1980s Chicana writers including Gloria Anzaldúa, Cherríe Moraga, Sandra Cisneros, Ana Castillo, and Alma Luz Villanueva have reworked iconic Mexican cultural symbols such as mother earth goddesses and La Llorona (the Wailing Woman of Mexican folklore), re-imagining them as powerful female figures. After reading the works of Chicana writers who created bold, powerful, and openly sexual female characters, Debra J. Blake wondered how everyday Mexican American women would characterize their own lives in relation to the writers' radical reconfigurations of female sexuality and gender roles. To find out, Blake gathered oral histories from working-class and semiprofessional U.S. Mexicanas. In Chicana Sexuality and Gender, she compares the self-representations of these women with fictional and artistic representations by academic-affiliated, professional intellectual Chicana writers and visual artists, including Alma M. López and Yolanda López.Blake looks at how the Chicana professional intellectuals and the U.S. Mexicana women refigure confining and demeaning constructions of female gender roles and racial, ethnic, and sexual identities. She organizes her analysis around re-imaginings of La Virgen de Guadalupe, La Llorona, indigenous Mexica goddesses, and La Malinche, the indigenous interpreter for Hernán Cortés during the Spanish conquest. In doing so, Blake reveals how the professional intellectuals and the working-class and semiprofessional women rework or invoke the female icons to confront the repression of female sexuality, limiting gender roles, inequality in male and female relationships, and violence against women. While the representational strategies of the two groups of women are significantly different and the U.S. Mexicanas would not necessarily call themselves feminists, Blake nonetheless illuminates a continuum of Chicana feminist thinking, showing how both groups of women expand lifestyle choices and promote the health and well-being of women of Mexican origin or descent.
    DOI: 10.1515/9780822381228
    URL: https://doi.org/10.1515/9780822381228?locatt=mode:legacy
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    Lust for Liberty : The Politics of Social Revolt in Medieval Europe, 1200-1425 (2008)
    Cambridge, MA : Harvard University Press | Berlin : Walter de Gruyter GmbH
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    ISBN: 9780674029675
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (384 p.)
    Edition: 2021
    DDC: 303.640940902
    Keywords: HISTORY / Medieval
    Abstract: Lust for Liberty challenges long-standing views of popular medieval revolts. Comparing rebellions in northern and southern Europe over two centuries, Samuel Cohn analyzes their causes and forms, their leadership, the role of women, and the suppression or success of these revolts. Popular revolts were remarkably common--not the last resort of desperate people. Leaders were largely workers, artisans, and peasants. Over 90 percent of the uprisings pitted ordinary people against the state and were fought over political rights--regarding citizenship, governmental offices, the barriers of ancient hierarchies--rather than rents, food prices, or working conditions. After the Black Death, the connection of the word "liberty" with revolts increased fivefold, and its meaning became more closely tied with notions of equality instead of privilege. The book offers a new interpretation of the Black Death and the increase of and change in popular revolt from the mid-1350s to the early fifteenth century. Instead of structural explanations based on economic, demographic, and political models, this book turns to the actors themselves--peasants, artisans, and bourgeois--finding that the plagues wrought a new urgency for social and political change and a new self- and class-confidence in the efficacy of collective action.
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    DOI: 10.4159/9780674029675
    URL: https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9780674029675
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    City of Disorder : How the Quality of Life Campaign Transformed New York Politics (2008)
    New York, NY : New York University Press | Berlin : Walter de Gruyter GmbH
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    ISBN: 9780814788417
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource
    DDC: 306.2/809747109045
    Abstract: 2009 Association of American University Presses Award for Jacket DesignIn the 1990s, improving the quality of life became a primary focus and a popular catchphrase of the governments of New York and many other American cities. Faced with high levels of homelessness and other disorders associated with a growing disenfranchised population, then mayor Rudolph Giuliani led New York's zero tolerance campaign against what was perceived to be an increase in disorder that directly threatened social and economic stability. In a traditionally liberal city, the focus had shifted dramatically from improving the lives of the needy to protecting the welfare of the middle and upper classes-a decidedly neoconservative move.In City of Disorder, Alex S. Vitale analyzes this drive to restore moral order which resulted in an overhaul of the way New York views such social problems as prostitution, graffiti, homelessness, and panhandling. Through several fascinating case studies of New York neighborhoods and an in-depth look at the dynamics of the NYPD and of the city's administration itself, Vitale explains why Republicans have won the last four New York mayoral elections and what the long-term impact Giuliani's zero tolerance method has been on a city historically known for its liberalism.
    DOI: 10.18574/nyu/9780814788417.001.0001
    URL: https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9780814788417
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    Globalization in Africa (2008)
    Boulder : Lynne Rienner Publishers | Berlin : Walter de Gruyter GmbH
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    ISBN: 9781626371057
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (196 p.)
    Edition: 2022
    DDC: 303.48/26
    Abstract: Is globalization good for Africa? Pádraig Carmody explores the evolving nature and impact of globalization throughout the continent, as China, the US, and other economic powers exert their influence. Drawing especially on the cases of Chad, Sudan, and Zambia, Carmody considers whether the resource curse that has for so long plagued Africa can become a blessing. He also evaluates the impact of the information technology revolution and the recent global economic slowdown. In the context of carefully articulated historical dynamics, he provocatively assesses the new role of Africa in the global economy.
    DOI: 10.1515/9781626371057
    URL: https://doi.org/10.1515/9781626371057
    URL: https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9781626371057
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    Rising India and Indian Communities in East Asia (2008)
    Singapore : ISEAS Publishing | Berlin : Walter de Gruyter GmbH
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    ISBN: 9789812308009
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource
    DDC: 305.891405
    Abstract: This edited volume containing thirty-five chapters focuses on three main contemporary issues: the phenomenon of "new Indians" in the past five decades, the impact of rising India on settled Indian communities, and the recent migrants. By examining these interrelated aspects, this study seeks to address questions like: what does "Rising India" mean to Indian communities in East Asia? How are members of Indian communities responding to India’s rise? Will India pay greater attention to people of Indian origin? And last but not least, will Indians in East Asia identify themselves with their ancestral land or view such identification as problematic?...
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    DOI: 10.1355/9789812308009
    URL: https://doi.org/10.1355/9789812308009
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    A Respectable Woman : The Public Roles of African American Women in 19th-Century New York (2008)
    New York, NY : New York University Press | Berlin : Walter de Gruyter GmbH
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    ISBN: 9780814785188
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource
    DDC: 305.4889607307471
    Abstract: In the nineteenth century, New York City underwent a tremendous demographic transformation driven by European immigration, the growth of a native-born population, and the expansion of one of the largest African American communities in the North. New York's free blacks were extremely politically active, lobbying for equal rights at home and an end to Southern slavery. As their activism increased, so did discrimination against them, most brutally illustrated by bloody attacks during the 1863 New York City Draft Riots.The struggle for civil rights did not extend to equal gender roles, and black male leaders encouraged women to remain in the domestic sphere, serving as caretakers, moral educators, and nurses to their families and community. Yet as Jane E. Dabel demonstrates, separate spheres were not a reality for New York City's black people, who faced dire poverty, a lopsided sex ratio, racialized violence, and a high mortality rate, all of which conspired to prevent men from gaining respectable employment and political clout. Consequently, many black women came out of the home and into the streets to work, build networks with other women, and fight against racial injustice. A Respectable Woman reveals the varied and powerful lives led by black women, who, despite the exhortations of male reformers, occupied public roles as gender and race reformers.
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    DOI: 10.18574/nyu/9780814785188.001.0001
    URL: https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9780814785188
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    Bodies of Work : Civic Display and Labor in Industrial Pittsburgh (2008)
    Durham : Duke University Press | Berlin : Walter de Gruyter GmbH
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    ISBN: 9780822389347
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (368 p.) , 30 illustrations
    Series Statement: Body, Commodity, Text : 21
    DDC: 305.562097488609034
    Abstract: By the end of the nineteenth century, Pittsburgh emerged as a major manufacturing center in the United States. Its rise as a leading producer of steel, glass, and coal was fueled by machine technology and mass immigration, developments that fundamentally changed the industrial workplace. Because Pittsburgh's major industries were almost exclusively male and renowned for their physical demands, the male working body came to symbolize multiple often contradictory narratives about strength and vulnerability, mastery and exploitation. In Bodies of Work, Edward Slavishak explores how Pittsburgh and the working body were symbolically linked in civic celebrations, the research of social scientists, the criticisms of labor reformers, advertisements, and workers' self-representations. Combining labor and cultural history with visual culture studies, he chronicles a heated contest to define Pittsburgh's essential character at the turn of the twentieth century, and he describes how that contest was conducted largely through the production of competing images.Slavishak focuses on the workers whose bodies came to epitomize Pittsburgh, the men engaged in the arduous physical labor demanded by the city's metals, glass, and coal industries. At the same time, he emphasizes how conceptions of Pittsburgh as quintessentially male limited representations of women in the industrial workplace. The threat of injury or violence loomed large for industrial workers at the turn of the twentieth century, and it recurs throughout Bodies of Work: in the marketing of artificial limbs, statistical assessments of the physical toll of industrial capitalism, clashes between labor and management, the introduction of workplace safety procedures, and the development of a statewide workmen's compensation system.
    DOI: 10.1515/9780822389347
    URL: https://doi.org/10.1515/9780822389347?locatt=mode:legacy
    URL: https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9780822389347
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    Kidnapped Souls : National Indifference and the Battle for Children in the Bohemian Lands, 1900–1948 (2008)
    Ithaca, N.Y. : Cornell University Press | Berlin : Walter de Gruyter GmbH
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    ISBN: 9780801461910
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource
    DDC: 305.23094371/0904
    Abstract: Throughout the nineteenth and into the early decades of the twentieth century, it was common for rural and working-class parents in the Czech-German borderlands to ensure that their children were bilingual by sending them to live with families who spoke the "other" language. As nationalism became a more potent force in Central Europe, however, such practices troubled pro-German and pro-Czech activists, who feared that the children born to their nation could literally be "lost" or "kidnapped" from the national community through such experiences and, more generally, by parents who were either flexible about national belonging or altogether indifferent to it.Highlighting this indifference to nationalism-and concerns about such apathy among nationalists-Kidnapped Souls offers a surprising new perspective on Central European politics and society in the first half of the twentieth century. Drawing on Austrian, Czech, and German archives, Tara Zahra shows how nationalists in the Bohemian Lands worked to forge political cultures in which children belonged more rightfully to the national collective than to their parents. Through their educational and social activism to fix the boundaries of nation and family, Zahra finds, Czech and German nationalists reveal the set of beliefs they shared about children, family, democracy, minority rights, and the relationship between the individual and the collective. Zahra shows that by 1939 a vigorous tradition of Czech-German nationalist competition over children had created cultures that would shape the policies of the Nazi occupation and the Czech response to it.The book's concluding chapter weighs the prehistory and consequences of the postwar expulsion of German families from the Bohemian Lands. Kidnapped Souls is a significant contribution to our understanding of the genealogy of modern nationalism in Central Europe and a groundbreaking exploration of the ways in which children have been the objects of political contestation when national communities have sought to shape, or to reshape, their futures.
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    DOI: 10.7591/9780801461910
    URL: https://doi.org/10.7591/9780801461910
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    English Learners Left Behind : Standardized Testing as Language Policy (2008)
    Blue Ridge Summit, PA : Multilingual Matters | Berlin : Walter de Gruyter GmbH
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    ISBN: 9781853599996
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource
    Series Statement: Bilingual Education & Bilingualism
    DDC: 306.44/973
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    Abstract: In the wake of recent federal legislation entitled No Child Left Behind, high-stakes standardized testing for accountability purposes is being emphasized in educational systems across the U.S. for all students – including English Language Learners (ELLs). Yet language proficiency mediates test performance, so ELLs typically receive scores far below those of other students. This book explores how tests have become de facto language policy in schools, shaping what is taught in school, how it is taught, and in what language(s) it is taught. In New York City, while most schools responded to testing by increasing the amount of English instruction offered to ELLs, a few schools have preserved native language instruction instead. Moreover, this research documents how tests are a defining force in the daily lives of ELLs and the educators who serve them.
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    DOI: 10.21832/9781853599996
    URL: https://doi.org/10.21832/9781853599996
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    Visible Histories, Disappearing Women : Producing Muslim Womanhood in Late Colonial Bengal (2008)
    Durham : Duke University Press | Berlin : Walter de Gruyter GmbH
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    ISBN: 9780822389033
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (352 p.)
    DDC: 305.48/697095414
    Abstract: In Visible Histories, Disappearing Women, Mahua Sarkar examines how Muslim women in colonial Bengal came to be more marginalized than Hindu women in nationalist discourse and subsequent historical accounts. She also considers how their near-invisibility except as victims has underpinned the construction of the ideal citizen-subject in late colonial India. Through critical engagements with significant feminist and postcolonial scholarship, Sarkar maps out when and where Muslim women enter into the written history of colonial Bengal. She argues that the nation-centeredness of history as a discipline and the intellectual politics of liberal feminism have together contributed to the production of Muslim women as the oppressed, mute, and invisible "other" of the normative modern Indian subject.Drawing on extensive archival research and oral histories of Muslim women who lived in Calcutta and Dhaka in the first half of the twentieth century, Sarkar traces Muslim women as they surface and disappear in colonial, Hindu nationalist, and liberal Muslim writings, as well as in the memories of Muslim women themselves. The oral accounts provide both a rich source of information about the social fabric of urban Bengal during the final years of colonial rule and a glimpse of the kind of negotiations with stereotypes that even relatively privileged, middle-class Muslim women are still frequently obliged to make in India today. Sarkar concludes with some reflections on the complex links between past constructions of Muslim women, current representations, and the violence against them in contemporary India.
    DOI: 10.1515/9780822389033
    URL: https://doi.org/10.1515/9780822389033?locatt=mode:legacy
    URL: https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9780822389033
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    Brazil Imagined : 1500 to the Present (2008)
    Austin : University of Texas Press | Berlin : Walter de Gruyter GmbH
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    ISBN: 9780292793958
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource
    Edition: 2021
    DDC: 306.4/20981
    Keywords: National characteristics, Brazilian ; HISTORY / Latin America / General
    Abstract: The first comprehensive cultural history of Brazil to be written in English, Brazil Imagined: 1500 to the Present captures the role of the artistic imaginary in shaping Brazil's national identity. Analyzing representations of Brazil throughout the world, this ambitious survey demonstrates the ways in which life in one of the world's largest nations has been conceived and revised in visual arts, literature, film, and a variety of other media. Beginning with the first explorations of Brazil by the Portuguese, Darlene J. Sadlier incorporates extensive source material, including paintings, historiographies, letters, poetry, novels, architecture, and mass media to trace the nation's shifting sense of its own history. Topics include the oscillating themes of Edenic and cannibal encounters, Dutch representations of Brazil, regal constructs, the literary imaginary, Modernist utopias, "good neighbor" protocols, and filmmakers' revolutionary and dystopian images of Brazil. A magnificent panoramic study of race, imperialism, natural resources, and other themes in the Brazilian experience, this landmark work is a boon to the field.
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    DOI: 10.7560/718562
    URL: https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9780292793958
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    Ageing in Southeast and East Asia : Family, Social Protection, Policy Challenges (2008)
    Singapore : ISEAS Publishing | Berlin : Walter de Gruyter GmbH
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    ISBN: 9789812307941
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource
    DDC: 305.26095
    Keywords: Konferenzschrift
    Abstract: Southeast and East Asian countries are undergoing varying stages of population ageing. The social, economic and political implications of population ageing will be enormous, and because of the fast speed of ageing in the region, the countries cannot afford the luxury of time for the gradual evolution of social and structural support systems and networks for the older population. The essays in this volume critically examine national ageing policies and programmes, the sustainability of existing pension systems, housing and living arrangements, inter-generational transfer, and aspects of quality of life of the elderly population. While the findings show that most Southeast Asian countries have started to formulate and implement national ageing policies, they also indicate that the existing policies are by and large inadequate and underdeveloped in serving the needs of the older population and indeed much more must be done to prepare for the future.
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    DOI: 10.1355/9789812307941
    URL: https://doi.org/10.1355/9789812307941
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    Transpeople : Repudiation, Trauma, Healing (2008)
    Toronto : University of Toronto Press | Berlin : Walter de Gruyter GmbH
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    ISBN: 9781442689503
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource
    Edition: [2019]
    DDC: 306.76/809711
    Abstract: Transgendered people face an array of interpersonal repudiations in their everyday lives, emanating from the political right through to the left, from social conservatives, various leading psychiatrists, radical feminists, as well as many lesbians and gays. In Transpeople, Christopher Shelley examines why so many transpeople are treated with such prejudice from a broad range of the socio-political spectrum, and how society can - and must - improve its understanding of transpeople and trans-related issues. Shelley's study of discrimination and acceptance uses an interdisciplinary approach that includes in-depth interviews with ten male-to-female and ten female-to-male transpeople, along with psychological, feminist, and political theory. He studies both the inadvertent challenges that transpeople make to traditional sex and gender definitions, and the reactions of resistance, defensiveness, and phobias of non-trans people when sex and gender norms are challenged. A vitally important work of gender and sex theory, Transpeople provides innumerable insights into both the experiences of transpeople, and the root causes of gender- and sex-related discrimination.
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    DOI: 10.3138/9781442689503
    URL: https://doi.org/10.3138/9781442689503
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    Beyond Bodies : Rain-making and Sense-making in Tanzania (2008)
    Toronto : University of Toronto Press | Berlin : Walter de Gruyter GmbH
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    ISBN: 9781442628090
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource
    Edition: [2018]
    Series Statement: Anthropological Horizons
    DDC: 305.896/39067826
    Abstract: For over a century, the Ihanzu of north-central Tanzania have conducted rainmaking rites. As with similar rites found across sub-Saharan Africa, these rites are replete with gender, sexual, and fertility motifs. Social scientists have typically explained such things as symbolizing human bodies and the act of procreation. But what happens when our interlocutors deny such symbolic explanations, when they insist that rain rites and the gender and sexual motifs in them do not symbolize anything but rather aim simply to bring rain?Beyond Bodies examines Ihanzu sensibilities about gender through a fine-grained ethnography of rainmaking rites. It considers the meaning of ritual practices in a society in which gender is not as bound to the body as it is in the Euro-American imagination. Engaging with recent anthropological and gender theory, this book crucially calls into question how social scientists have explained gender symbolism in myriad ethnographic and historical studies across Africa.
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    DOI: 10.3138/9781442628090
    URL: https://doi.org/10.3138/9781442628090
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    Applied Anthropology in Canada : Understanding Aboriginal Issues (2008)
    Toronto : University of Toronto Press | Berlin : Walter de Gruyter GmbH
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    ISBN: 9781442687356
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (320 p.)
    Edition: Second Edition
    Edition: [2020]
    DDC: 305.897/071
    Abstract: Anthropologists are often reluctant to present their work relating to matters of a broad social context to the wider public even though many have much to say about a range of contemporary issues. In this second edition of a classic work in the field, Edward J. Hedican takes stock of Anthroplogy's research on current indigenous affairs and offers an up-to-date assessment of Aboriginal issues in Canada from the perspective of applied Anthropology. In his central thesis, Hedican underlines Anthropology's opportunity to make a significant impact on the way Aboriginal issues are studied, perceived, and interpreted in Canada. He contends that anthropologists must quit lingering on the periphery of debates concerning land claims and race relations and become more actively committed to the public good. His study ranges over such challenging topics as advocacy roles in Aboriginal studies, the ethics of applied research, policy issues in community development, the political context of the self-government debate, and the dilemma of Aboriginal status and identity in Canada. Applied Anthropology in Canada is an impassioned call for a revitalized Anthropology - one more directly attuned to the practical problems faced by First Nations peoples. Hedican's focus on Aboriginal issues gives his work a strong contemporary relevance that bridges the gap between scholarly and public spheres.
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    DOI: 10.3138/9781442687356
    URL: https://doi.org/10.3138/9781442687356
    URL: https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9781442687356
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    Masculinity in the Reformation Era (2008)
    University Park, PA : Penn State University Press | Berlin : Walter de Gruyter GmbH
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    ISBN: 9780271091112
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (256 p.)
    Edition: 2021
    Series Statement: Sixteenth Century Essays & Studies 83
    DDC: 305.3109409/031
    Keywords: Masculinity Religious aspects ; Christianity ; History ; Masculinity History ; Reformation ; Social change ; RELIGION / Religion, Politics & State
    Abstract: These essays add a unique perspective to studies that reconstruct the identity of manhood in early modern Europe, including France, Switzerland, Spain, and Germany. The authors examine the ways in which sixteenth- and seventeenth-century authorities, both secular and religious, labored to turn boys and men into the Christian males they desired. Topics include disparities among gender paradigms that early modern models prescribed and the tension between the patriarchal model and the civic duties that men were expected to fulfill. Essays about Martin Luther, a prolific self-witness, look into the marriage relationship with its expected and actual gender roles. Contributors to this volume are Scott H. Hendrix, Susan C. Karant-Nunn, Raymond A. Mentzer, Allyson M. Poska, Helmut Puff, Karen E. Spierling, Ulrike Strasser, B. Ann Tlusty, and Merry E. Wiesner-Hanks.
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    DOI: 10.1515/9780271091112
    URL: https://doi.org/10.1515/9780271091112
    URL: https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9780271091112
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    The Crusades: Conflict Between Christendom and Islam (2008)
    Piscataway, NJ : Gorgias Press | Berlin : Walter de Gruyter GmbH
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    ISBN: 9781463211158
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (1164 p.)
    Series Statement: Publications of the Archdiocese of the Syriac Orthodox Church
    DDC: 305.8
    Abstract: This book sheds light on the first three Crusades (1097-1191) by introducing material from several medieval Syriac and Arabic sources and reconciling their accounts with those provided by Western sources. It presents the Crusades as an extension of the conflict between Christianity and Islam, which began with the Arabs' first incursions into Christian territory in the seventh century and continued with their conquest of the Iberian peninsula.
    DOI: 10.31826/9781463211158
    URL: https://doi.org/10.31826/9781463211158
    URL: https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9781463211158
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    Men : Evolutionary and Life History (2008)
    Cambridge, MA : Harvard University Press | Berlin : Walter de Gruyter GmbH
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    ISBN: 9780674028784
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (320 p.)
    Edition: 2022
    DDC: 306.4
    Abstract: Males account for roughly 50 percent of the global population, but in America and other places, they account for over 85 percent of violent crime. A graph of relative risk of death in human males shows that mortality is high immediately following birth, falls during childhood, then exhibits a distinct rise between the ages of 15 and 35-primarily the result of accidents, violence, and risky behaviors. Why? What compels males to drive fast, act violently, and behave stupidly? Why are men's lives so different from those of women? Men presents a new approach to understanding the human male by drawing upon life history and evolutionary theory. Because life history theory focuses on the timing of, and energetic investment in, particular aspects of physiology, such as growth and reproduction, Richard Bribiescas and his fellow anthropologists are now using it in the study of humans. This has led to an increased understanding of human female physiology-especially growth and reproduction-from an evolutionary and life history perspective. However, little attention has been directed toward these characteristics in males. Men provides a new understanding of human male physiology and applies it to contemporary health issues such as prostate cancer, testosterone replacement therapy, and the development of a male contraceptive. Men proves that understanding human physiology requires global research in traditionally overlooked areas and that evolutionary and life history theory have much to offer toward this endeavor.
    DOI: 10.4159/9780674028784
    URL: https://doi.org/10.4159/9780674028784
    URL: https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9780674028784
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    The Racial Middle : Latinos and Asian Americans Living Beyond the Racial Divide (2008)
    New York, NY : New York University Press | Berlin : Walter de Gruyter GmbH
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    ISBN: 9780814762523
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource
    DDC: 305.800973
    Abstract: The divide over race is usually framed as one over Black and White. Sociologist Eileen O'Brien is interested in that middle terrain, what sits in the ever-increasing gray area she dubbed the racial middle.The Racial Middle, tells the story of the other racial and ethnic groups in America, mainly Latinos and Asian Americans, two of the largest and fastest-growing minorities in the United States. Using dozens of in-depth interviews with people of various ethnic and generational backgrounds, Eileen O'Brien challenges the notion that, to fit into American culture, the only options available to Latinos and Asian Americans are either to become white or to become brown.Instead, she offers a wholly unique analysis of Latinos and Asian Americans own distinctive experiences-those that aren't typically White nor Black. Though living alongside Whites and Blacks certainly frames some of their own identities and interpretations of race, O'Brien keenly observes that these groups struggles with discrimination, their perceived isolation from members of other races, and even how they define racial justice, are all significant realities that inform their daily lives and, importantly, influence their opportunities for advancement in society.A refreshing and lively approach to understanding race and ethnicity in the twenty-first century, The Racial Middle gives voice to Latinos and Asian-Americans place in this country's increasingly complex racial mosaic.
    DOI: 10.18574/nyu/9780814762523.001.0001
    URL: https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9780814762523
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    Inventing Modern Adolescence : The Children of Immigrants in Turn-of-the-Century America (2008)
    New Brunswick, NJ : Rutgers University Press | Berlin : Walter de Gruyter GmbH
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    ISBN: 9780813545950
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (216 p.) , 29 illustrations
    Series Statement: Rutgers Series in Childhood Studies
    DDC: 305.23086/9120973
    RVK:
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    Abstract: The 1960s are commonly considered to be the beginning of a distinct "teenage culture" in America. But did this highly visible era of free love and rock 'n' roll really mark the start of adolescent defiance? In Inventing Modern Adolescence Sarah E. Chinn follows the roots of American teenage identity further back, to the end of the nineteenth and beginning of the twentieth centuries. She argues that the concept of the "generation gap"—a stereotypical complaint against American teens—actually originated with the division between immigrant parents and their American-born or -raised children. Melding a uniquely urban immigrant sensibility with commercialized consumer culture and a youth-oriented ethos characterized by fun, leisure, and overt sexual behavior, these young people formed a new identity that provided the framework for today's concepts of teenage lifestyle.Addressing the intersecting issues of urban life, race, gender, sexuality, and class consciousness, Inventing Modern Adolescence is an authoritative and engaging look at a pivotal point in American history and the intriguing, complicated, and still very pertinent teenage identity that emerged from it.
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    DOI: 10.36019/9780813545950
    URL: https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9780813545950
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    Kitchenspace : Women, Fiestas, and Everyday Life in Central Mexico (2008)
    Austin : University of Texas Press | Berlin : Walter de Gruyter GmbH
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    ISBN: 9780292794030
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource
    Edition: 2021
    DDC: 394.120972
    Keywords: SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural & Social
    Abstract: Throughout the world, the kitchen is the heart of family and community life. Yet, while everyone has a story to tell about their grandmother's kitchen, the myriad activities that go on in this usually female world are often devalued, and little scholarly attention has been paid to this crucial space in which family, gender, and community relations are forged and maintained. To give the kitchen the prominence and respect it merits, Maria Elisa Christie here offers a pioneering ethnography of kitchenspace in three central Mexican communities, Xochimilco, Ocotepec, and Tetecala. Christie coined the term "kitchenspace" to encompass both the inside kitchen area in which everyday meals for the family are made and the larger outside cooking area in which elaborate meals for community fiestas are prepared by many women working together. She explores how both kinds of meal preparation create bonds among family and community members. In particular, she shows how women's work in preparing food for fiestas gives women status in their communities and creates social networks of reciprocal obligation. In a culture rigidly stratified by gender, Christie concludes, kitchenspace gives women a source of power and a place in which to transmit the traditions and beliefs of older generations through quasi-sacramental food rites.
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    DOI: 10.7560/717947
    URL: https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9780292794030
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    Christopher Hitchens and His Critics : Terror, Iraq, and the Left (2008)
    New York, NY : New York University Press | Berlin : Walter de Gruyter GmbH
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    ISBN: 9780814762820
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource
    DDC: 303.6/6
    Abstract: Christopher Hitchens—political journalist, cultural critic, public intellectual and self-described contrarian—is one of the most controversial and prolific writers of his generation. His most recent book, God Is Not Great, was on the New York Times bestseller list in 2007 for months. Like his hero, George Orwell, Hitchens is a tireless opponent of all forms of cruelty, ideological dogma, religious superstition and intellectual obfuscation. Once a socialist, he now refers to himself as an unaffiliated radical. As a thinker, Hitchens is perhaps best viewed as post-ideological, in that his intellectual sources and solidarities are strikingly various (he is an admirer of both Leon Trotsky and Kingsley Amis) and cannot be located easily at any one point on the ideological spectrum. Since leaving Britain for the United States in 1981, Hitchens's thinking has moved in what some see as contradictory directions, but he remains an unapologetic and passionate defender of the Enlightenment values of secularism, democracy, free expression, and scientific inquiry. The global turmoil of the recent past has provoked intense dispute and division among intellectuals, academics, and other commentators. Hitchens's writing during this time, particularly after 9/11, is an essential reference point for understanding the genesis and meaning of that turmoil—and the challenges that accompany it. This volume brings together Hitchens's most incisive reflections on the war on terror, the war in Iraq, and the state of the contemporary Left. It also includes a selection of critical commentaries on his work from his former leftist comrades, a set of exchanges between Hitchens and various left-leaning interlocutors (such as Studs Terkel, Norman Finkelstein, and Michael Kazin), and an introductory essay by the editors on the nature and significance of Hitchens's contribution to the world of ideas and public debate. In response, Hitchens provides an original afterword, written for this collection. Whatever readers might think about Hitchens, he remains an intellectual force to be reckoned with. And there is no better place to encounter his current thinking than in this provocative volume.
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    DOI: 10.18574/nyu/9780814762820.001.0001
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    Hooking Up : Sex, Dating, and Relationships on Campus (2008)
    New York, NY : New York University Press | Berlin : Walter de Gruyter GmbH
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    ISBN: 9780814789919
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource
    DDC: 306.73084/20973
    Abstract: Listen to her NPR InterviewThe Sociology of "Hooking Up": Author Interview on Inside Higher EdNewsweek: Campus Sexperts--›Hookup culture creates unfamiliar environment - to parents, at leastHooking Up: What Educators Need to Know - An op-ed on CHE by the authorIt happens every weekend: In a haze of hormones and alcohol, groups of male and female college students meet at a frat party, a bar, or hanging out in a dorm room, and then hook up for an evening of sex first, questions later. As casually as the sexual encounter begins, so it often ends with no strings attached; after all, it was “just a hook up.” While a hook up might mean anything from kissing to oral sex to going all the way, the lack of commitment is paramount.Hooking Up is an intimate look at how and why college students get together, what hooking up means to them, and why it has replaced dating on college campuses. In surprisingly frank interviews, students reveal the circumstances that have led to the rise of the booty call and the death of dinner-and-a-movie. Whether it is an expression of postfeminist independence or a form of youthful rebellion, hooking up has become the only game in town on many campuses.In Hooking Up, Kathleen A. Bogle argues that college life itself promotes casual relationships among students on campus. The book sheds light on everything from the differences in what young men and women want from a hook up to why freshmen girls are more likely to hook up than their upper-class sisters and the effects this period has on the sexual and romantic relationships of both men and women after college. Importantly, she shows us that the standards for young men and women are not as different as they used to be, as women talk about “friends with benefits” and “one and done” hook ups.Breaking through many misconceptions about casual sex on college campuses, Hooking Up is the first book to understand the new sexual culture on its own terms, with vivid real-life stories of young men and women as they navigate the newest sexual revolution.
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    DOI: 10.18574/nyu/9780814789919.001.0001
    URL: https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9780814789919
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    Ernste Spiele : Zur politischen Soziologie des Fußballs (2008)
    Bielefeld : transcript Verlag | Berlin : Walter de Gruyter GmbH
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    ISBN: 9783839409770
    Language: German
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (276 Seiten) , Illustrationen
    Series Statement: Materialitäten 6
    DDC: 306.483
    Keywords: Fussball Politische Soziologie ; Kongressbericht ; Politische Soziologie Fussball ; Kongressbericht ; Soccer Congresses Social aspects ; Soccer Congresses Social aspects ; Soccer Social aspects ; Sportsoziologie Kongressbericht ; Fussball ; Medicine ; Politische Soziologie ; Public Health ; Sozialwissenschaften, Soziologie, Anthropologie ; Sportsoziologie ; Konferenzschrift
    Abstract: Wie kaum ein anderer Sport ist Fußball geeignet, das Verhältnis des Sports zu anderen gesellschaftlichen Feldern wie Wirtschaft, Politik, Kultur und Medien zu analysieren. Als Mikroskop der komplexen Verflechtungen des Sozialen wird Fußball zu einem ernsten Spiel, in dem zentrale gesellschaftliche Themen und Konflikte aufgeführt und stellvertretend ausgefochten werden. Als Feld sozialer In- und Exklusionen ist der Sport zugleich ein Medium von Gemeinschaftsbildungen. »Fußball-Gemeinden«, so die These dieses Buches, sind nicht nur Sportgemeinschaften; sie können auch als politische Gemeinschaften verstanden werden. Fußball ist insofern immer auch eine politische Praxis. Die in diesem Band versammelten Beiträge untersuchen die gemeinschafts- und identitätsstiftenden Funktionen von Fußball. Sie leisten einen Beitrag zu einer Soziologie des Sports und zugleich zu einer politischen Soziologie, indem Fußball als ein soziales Feld sichtbar gemacht wird, in dem sich politische Formen von Vergemeinschaftung vollziehen.
    DOI: 10.1515/9783839409770
    URL: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783839409770?locatt=mode:legacy
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    Language Planning and Policy in Europe, Vol. 3 : The Baltic States, Ireland and Italy (2008)
    Blue Ridge Summit, PA : Multilingual Matters | Berlin : Walter de Gruyter GmbH
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    ISBN: 9781847690296
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource
    Series Statement: Language Planning and Policy
    DDC: 306.44/94
    Abstract: This volume covers the language situation in The Baltic States, Ireland and Italy explaining the linguistic diversity, the historical and political contexts and the current language situation, including language-in-education planning, the role of the media, the role of religion, and the roles of non-indigenous languages. The authors are indigenous and/or have been participants in the language planning context, and these monographs on the Baltic States, Ireland, and Italy draw together the published literature in each of these polities. The purpose of the volumes in this series is to present up-to-date information on polities that are not well-known to researchers in the field. A longer range purpose is to collect comparable information on as many polities as possible in order to facilitate the development of a richer theory to guide language policy and planning in other polities that undertake the development of a national policy on languages. This volume is part of an areal series which is committed to providing descriptions of language planning and policy in countries around the world.
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    DOI: 10.21832/9781847690296
    URL: https://doi.org/10.21832/9781847690296
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    TheSociolinguistics of Development in Africa (2008)
    Blue Ridge Summit, PA : Multilingual Matters | Berlin : Walter de Gruyter GmbH
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    ISBN: 9781847690470
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource
    Series Statement: Multilingual Matters
    DDC: 306.44096
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    EP 13020
    Keywords: Soziolinguistik ; Afrika
    Abstract: This book discusses the existing sociolinguistic order in Africa, how it is sustained, how it might be changed to the advantage of those who are dominated by it and, most importantly, how it affects the development potential of the Continent. It raises issues about African languages that the average person is not always aware of. For example, why must the African child learn how to read and write in a foreign language? Why must all African doctors be trained in languages that their patient population do not understand? Why must African leaders address their people in languages they know the people do not understand? What are the flow-on effects of these language practices on Africa’s development goals? The book also proposes sustainable and development-oriented alternatives to these practices.
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    DOI: 10.21832/9781847690470
    URL: https://doi.org/10.21832/9781847690470
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    Ethnic Chinese in Contemporary Indonesia (2008)
    Singapore : ISEAS Publishing | Berlin : Walter de Gruyter GmbH
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    ISBN: 9789812308368
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource
    DDC: 305.89510598
    Abstract: The Chinese in Indonesia have played an important role in Indonesian society before and after the fall of Soeharto. This book provides comprehensive and up-to-date information by examining them in detail during that era with special reference to the post-Soeharto period. The contributors to this volume consist of both older- and younger-generation scholars writing on Indonesian Chinese. They offer new information and fresh perspectives on the issues of government policies, legal position, ethnic politics, race relations, religion, education and prospects of the Chinese Indonesians.
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    DOI: 10.1355/9789812308368
    URL: https://doi.org/10.1355/9789812308368
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    Language Planning and Policy in Asia, Vol.1 : Japan, Nepal and Taiwan and Chinese Characters (2008)
    Blue Ridge Summit, PA : Multilingual Matters | Berlin : Walter de Gruyter GmbH
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    ISBN: 9781847690968
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource
    Series Statement: Language Planning and Policy
    DDC: 306.4495
    Abstract: This volume covers the language situation in Japan, Nepal and Taiwan, as well as the modernisation of Chinese characters in China, explaining the linguistic diversity, the historical and political contexts and the current language situation, including language-in-education planning, the role of the media, the role of religion, and the roles of non-indigenous languages. Two of the authors are indigenous and the other two have been participants in the language planning context in these countries. The purpose of the volumes in this series is to present up-to-date information on polities that are not well known to researchers in the field. A longer range purpose is to collect comparable information on as many polities as possible in order to facilitate the development of a richer theory to guide language policy and planning in other polities that undertake the development of a national policy on languages. This volume is part of an areal series which is committed to providing descriptions of language planning and policy in countries around the world.
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    DOI: 10.21832/9781847690968
    URL: https://doi.org/10.21832/9781847690968
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    Migrant Imaginaries : Latino Cultural Politics in the U.S.-Mexico Borderlands (2008)
    New York, NY : New York University Press | Berlin : Walter de Gruyter GmbH
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    ISBN: 9780814790076
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource
    Series Statement: Nation of Nations 12
    DDC: 304.8/7210730904
    Abstract: Winner of the 2009 Lora Romero First Book Prize from the American Studies Association2009 Choice Outstanding Academic TitleMigrant Imaginaries explores the transnational movements of Mexican migrants in pursuit of labor and civil rights in the United States from the 1920s onward. Working through key historical moments such as the 1930s, the Chicano Movement, and contemporary globalization and neoliberalism, Alicia Schmidt Camacho examines the relationship between ethnic Mexican expressive culture and the practices sustaining migrant social movements. Combining sustained historical engagement with theoretical inquiries, she addresses how struggles for racial and gender equity, cross-border unity, and economic justice have defined the Mexican presence in the United States since 1910.Schmidt Camacho covers a range of archives and sources, including migrant testimonials and songs, Amrico Parede’s last published novel, The Shadow, the film Salt of the Earth, the foundational manifestos of El Movimiento, Richard Rodriguez’s memoirs, narratives by Marisela Norte and Rosario Sanmiguel, and testimonios of Mexican women workers and human rights activists, as well as significant ethnographic research. Throughout, she demonstrates how Mexicans and Mexican Americans imagined their communal ties across the border, and used those bonds to contest their noncitizen status. Migrant Imaginaries places migrants at the center of the hemisphere’s most pressing concerns, contending that border crossers have long been vital to social change.
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    DOI: 10.18574/nyu/9780814790076.001.0001
    URL: https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9780814790076
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    Society without God : What the Least Religious Nations Can Tell Us About Contentment (2008)
    New York, NY : New York University Press | Berlin : Walter de Gruyter GmbH
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    ISBN: 9780814797471
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource
    DDC: 306.6
    Abstract: “Silver” Winner of the 2008 Foreword Magazine Book of the Year Award, Religion CategoryBefore he began his recent travels, it seemed to Phil Zuckerman as if humans all over the globe were “getting religion”—praising deities, performing holy rites, and soberly defending the world from sin. But most residents of Denmark and Sweden, he found, don’t worship any god at all, don’t pray, and don’t give much credence to religious dogma of any kind. Instead of being bastions of sin and corruption, however, as the Christian Right has suggested a godless society would be, these countries are filled with residents who score at the very top of the “happiness index” and enjoy their healthy societies, which boast some of the lowest rates of violent crime in the world (along with some of the lowest levels of corruption), excellent educational systems, strong economies, well-supported arts, free health care, egalitarian social policies, outstanding bike paths, and great beer.Zuckerman formally interviewed nearly 150 Danes and Swedes of all ages and educational backgrounds over the course of fourteen months. He was particularly interested in the worldviews of people who live their lives without religious orientation. How do they think about and cope with death? Are they worried about an afterlife? What he found is that nearly all of his interviewees live their lives without much fear of the Grim Reaper or worries about the hereafter. This led him to wonder how and why it is that certain societies are non-religious in a world that seems to be marked by increasing religiosity. Drawing on prominent sociological theories and his own extensive research, Zuckerman ventures some interesting answers.This fascinating approach directly counters the claims of outspoken, conservative American Christians who argue that a society without God would be hell on earth. It is crucial, Zuckerman believes, for Americans to know that “society without God is not only possible, but it can be quite civil and pleasant.”...
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    DOI: 10.18574/nyu/9780814797471.001.0001
    URL: https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9780814797471
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    American Muslim Women : Negotiating Race, Class, and Gender within the Ummah (2008)
    New York, NY : New York University Press | Berlin : Walter de Gruyter GmbH
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    ISBN: 9780814749111
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource
    Series Statement: Religion, Race, and Ethnicity 10
    DDC: 305.6/97
    Abstract: African American Muslims and South Asian Muslim immigrants are two of the largest ethnic Muslim groups in the U.S. Yet there are few sites in which African Americans and South Asian immigrants come together, and South Asians are often held up as a "model minority" against African Americans. However, the American ummah, or American Muslim community, stands as a unique site for interethnic solidarity in a time of increased tensions between native-born Americans and immigrants.This ethnographic study of African American and South Asian immigrant Muslims in Chicago and Atlanta explores how Islamic ideals of racial harmony and equality create hopeful possibilities in an American society that remains challenged by race and class inequalities. The volume focuses on women who, due to gender inequalities, are sometimes more likely to move outside of their ethnic Muslim spaces and interact with other Muslim ethnic groups in search of gender justice.American Muslim Women explores the relationships and sometimes alliances between African Americans and South Asian immigrants, drawing on interviews with a diverse group of women from these two communities. Karim investigates what it means to negotiate religious sisterhood against America's race and class hierarchies, and how those in the American Muslim community both construct and cross ethnic boundaries.American Muslim Women reveals the ways in which multiple forms of identity frame the American Muslim experience, in some moments reinforcing ethnic boundaries, and at other times, resisting them.
    DOI: 10.18574/nyu/9780814749111.001.0001
    URL: https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9780814749111
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    Finding Faith : The Spiritual Quest of the Post-Boomer Generation (2008)
    New Brunswick, NJ : Rutgers University Press | Berlin : Walter de Gruyter GmbH
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    ISBN: 9780813544267
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (248 p.) , 11
    DDC: 306.60973
    Abstract: Despite the masses still lining up to enter mega-churches with warehouse-like architecture, casually dressed clergy, and pop Christian music, the "Post-Boomer" generation-those ranging in age from twenty to forty-is having second thoughts. In this perceptive look at the evolving face of Christianity in contemporary culture, sociologists Richard Flory and Donald E. Miller argue that we are on the verge of another potential revolution in how Christians worship and associate with one another. Just as the formative experiences of Baby Boomers were colored by such things as the war in Vietnam, the 1960s, and a dramatic increase in their opportunities for individual expression, so Post-Boomers have grown up in less structured households with working (often divorced) parents. These childhood experiences leave them craving authentic spiritual experience, rather than entertainment, and also cause them to question institutions. Flory and Miller develop a typology that captures four current approaches to the Christian faith and argue that this generation represents a new religious orientation of "expressive communalism," in which they seek spiritual experience and fulfillment in community and through various expressive forms of spirituality, both private and public.
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    DOI: 10.36019/9780813544267
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    Stray Wives : Marital Conflict in Early National New England (2008)
    New York, NY : New York University Press | Berlin : Walter de Gruyter GmbH
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    ISBN: 9780814745342
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource
    DDC: 306.872/0974/09034
    Abstract: Whereas my husband, Enoch Darling, has at sundry times used me in so improper and cruel a manner, as to destroy my happiness and endanger my life, and whereas he has not provided for me as a husband ought, but expended his time and money unadvisedly, at taverns . . . . I hereby notify the public that I am obliged to leave him. Phebe Darling, January 13, 1796Hundreds of provocative notices such as this one ran in New England newspapers between 1790 and 1830. These elopement notices--advertisements paid for by husbands and occasionally wives to announce their spouses' desertions as well as the personal details of their marital conflicts--testify to the difficulties that many couples experienced, and raise questions about the nature of the marital relationship in early national New England.Stray Wives examines marriage, family, gender, and the law through the lens of these elopement notices. In conjunction with legal treatises, court records, and prescriptive literature, Mary Beth Sievens highlights the often tenuous relationships among marriage law, marital ideals, and lived experience in the early Republic, an era of exceptional cultural and economic change.Elopement notices allowed couples to negotiate the meaning of these changes, through contests over issues such as gender roles, consumption, economic support, and property ownership. Sievens reveals the ambiguous, often contested nature of marital law, showing that husbands' superior status and wives' dependence were fluid and negotiable, subject to the differing interpretations of legal commentators, community members, and spouses themselves.
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    DOI: 10.18574/nyu/9780814745342.001.0001
    URL: https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9780814745342
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    Civil Wars : Internal Struggles, Global Consequences (2008)
    Toronto : University of Toronto Press | Berlin : Walter de Gruyter GmbH
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    ISBN: 9781442603370
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (272 p.)
    Edition: [2020]
    DDC: 303.64
    Abstract: What motivates individuals to take up arms against their government? What types of states have historically been more prone to internal conflicts? In Civil Wars: Internal Struggles, Global Consequences Marie Olson Lounsbery and Frederic Pearson explore these questions and present a comprehensive analysis of the causes, consequences, and management potential regarding civil wars throughout the world.
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    DOI: 10.3138/9781442603370
    URL: https://doi.org/10.3138/9781442603370
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    The Color of Crime (Second Edition) : Racial Hoaxes, White Fear, Black Protectionism, Police Harassment, and Other Macroaggressions (2008)
    New York, NY : New York University Press | Berlin : Walter de Gruyter GmbH
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    ISBN: 9780814777213
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource
    Series Statement: Critical America 45
    DDC: 305.8
    Abstract: When The Color of Crime was first published ten years ago, it was heralded as a path-breaking book on race and crime. Now, in its tenth anniversary year, Katheryn Russell-Brown's book is more relevant than ever. The Jena Six, Duke Lacrosse Team, Amadou Diallo, Sean Bell, James Byrd, and all of those victimized in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina are just a few of the racially fueled cases that have made headlines in the past decade.Russell-Brown continues to ask, why do Black and White Americans perceive police actions so differently? Is White fear of Black crime justified? Do African Americans really protect their own? Should they? And why are we still talking about O.J.? Russell-Brown surveys the landscape of American crime and identifies some of the country's most significant racial pathologies. In this new edition, each chapter is updated and revised, and two new chapters have been added. Enriched with twenty-five new cases, the explosive and troublesome chapter on "Racial Hoaxes" demonstrates that "playing the race card" is still a popular ploy.The Color of Crime is a lucid and forceful volume that calls for continued vigilance on the part of journalists, scholars, and policymakers alike. Through her innovative analysis of cases, ideological and media trends, issues, and practices that resonate below the public radar even in the new century, Russell-Brown explores the tacit and subtle ways that deviance is systematically linked to people of color. Her findings are impossible to ignore.
    DOI: 10.18574/nyu/9780814777213.001.0001
    URL: https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9780814777213
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    America's Forgotten Holiday : May Day and Nationalism, 1867-1960 (2008)
    New York, NY : New York University Press | Berlin : Walter de Gruyter GmbH
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    ISBN: 9781479844845
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource
    Series Statement: American History and Culture 2
    DDC: 394.26270973/09041
    Abstract: Though now a largely forgotten holiday in the United States, May Day was founded here in 1886 by an energized labor movement as a part of its struggle for the eight-hour day. In ensuing years, May Day took on new meaning, and by the early 1900s had become an annual rallying point for anarchists, socialists, and communists around the world. Yet American workers and radicals also used May Day to advance alternative definitions of what it meant to be an American and what America should be as a nation.Mining contemporary newspapers, party and union records, oral histories, photographs, and rare film footage, America's Forgotten Holiday explains how May Days celebrants, through their colorful parades and mass meetings, both contributed to the construction of their own radical American identities and publicized alternative social and political models for the nation.This fascinating story of May Day in America reveals how many contours of American nationalism developed in dialogue with political radicals and workers, and uncovers the cultural history of those who considered themselves both patriotic and dissenting Americans.
    DOI: 10.18574/nyu/9781479844845.001.0001
    URL: https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9781479844845
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    Global TV : Exporting Television and Culture in the World Market (2008)
    New York, NY : New York University Press | Berlin : Walter de Gruyter GmbH
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    ISBN: 9780814739167
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource
    DDC: 302.23/45
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    AP 33200
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    AP 39000
    Abstract: A reporter for the Los Angeles Times once noted that “I Love Lucy is said to be on the air somewhere in the world 24 hours a day.” That Lucy’s madcap antics can be watched anywhere at any time is thanks to television syndication, a booming global marketplace that imports and exports TV shows. Programs from different countries are packaged, bought, and sold all over the world, under the watch of an industry that is extraordinarily lucrative for major studios and production companies.In Global TV, Denise D. Bielb and C. Lee Harrington seek to understand the machinery of this marketplace, its origins and history, its inner workings, and its product management. In so doing, they are led to explore the cultural significance of this global trade, and to ask how it is so remarkably successful despite the inherent cultural differences between shows and local audiences. How do culture-specific genres like American soap operas and Latin telenovelas so easily cross borders and adapt to new cultural surroundings? Why is The Nanny, whose gum-chewing star is from Queens, New York, a smash in Italy? Importantly, Bielby and Harrington also ask which kinds of shows fail. What is lost in translation? Considering such factors as censorship and other such state-specific policies, what are the inevitable constraints of crossing over?Highly experienced in the field, Bielby and Harrington provide a unique and richly textured look at global television through a cultural lens, one that has an undeniable and complex effect on what shows succeed and which do not on an international scale.
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    DOI: 10.18574/nyu/9780814739167.001.0001
    URL: https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9780814739167
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    The Trial of Frederick Eberle : Language, Patriotism and Citizenship in Philadelphia's German Community, 1790 to 1830 (2008)
    New York, NY : New York University Press | Berlin : Walter de Gruyter GmbH
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    ISBN: 9780814789940
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource
    DDC: 306.44089/31074811
    Keywords: Fallstudiensammlung
    Abstract: In the summer of 1816, the state of Pennsylvania tried fifty-nine German-Americans on charges of conspiracy and rioting. The accused had, according to the indictment, conspired to prevent with physical force the introduction of the English language into the largest German church in North America, Philadelphia’s Lutheran congregation of St. Michael’s and Zion. The trial marked the climax of an increasingly violent conflict over language choice in Philadelphia’s German community, with members bitterly divided into those who favored the exclusive use of German in their church, and those who preferred occasional services in English. At trial, witnesses, lawyers, defendants, and the judge explicitly linked language to class, citizenship, patriotism, religion, and violence. Mining many previously unexamined sources, including German-language writings, witness testimonies, and the opinions of prominent legal professionals, Friederike Baer uses legal conflict as a prism through which to explore the significance of language in the early American republic. The Trial of Frederick Eberle reminds us that debates over language have always been about far more than just language. Baer demonstrates that the 1816 trial was not a battle between Americans and immigrants, or German-speakers and English-speakers. Instead, the individuals involved in the case seized and exploited English and German as powerful symbols of competing cultural, economic, and social interests.
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    DOI: 10.18574/nyu/9780814789940.001.0001
    URL: https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9780814789940
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    Breadwinners and Citizens : Gender in the Making of the French Social Model (2008)
    Durham : Duke University Press | Berlin : Walter de Gruyter GmbH
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    ISBN: 9780822388814
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (358 p.)
    DDC: 306.3/6150944
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    MG 34920
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    NQ 2820
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    Abstract: Laura Levine Frader's synthesis of labor history and gender history brings to the fore failures in realizing the French social model of equality for all citizens. Challenging previous scholarship, she argues that the male breadwinner ideal was stronger in France in the interwar years than scholars have typically recognized, and that it had negative consequences for women's claims to the full benefits of citizenship. She describes how ideas about masculinity, femininity, family, and work affected post-World War I reconstruction, policies designed to address France's postwar population deficit, and efforts to redefine citizenship in the 1920s and 1930s. She demonstrates that gender divisions and the male breadwinner ideal were reaffirmed through the policies and practices of labor, management, and government. The social model that France implemented in the 1920s and 1930s incorporated fundamental social inequalities.Frader's analysis moves between the everyday lives of ordinary working women and men and the actions of national policymakers, political parties, and political movements, including feminists, pro-natalists, and trade unionists. In the years following World War I, the many women and an increasing number of immigrant men in the labor force competed for employment and pay. Family policy was used not only to encourage reproduction but also to regulate wages and the size of the workforce. Policies to promote married women's and immigrants' departure from the labor force were more common when jobs were scarce, as they were during the Depression. Frader contends that gender and ethnicity exerted a powerful and unacknowledged influence on French social policy during the Depression era and for decades afterward.
    DOI: 10.1515/9780822388814
    URL: https://doi.org/10.1515/9780822388814?locatt=mode:legacy
    URL: https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9780822388814
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    Dicke Kinder - revisited : Zur Kommunikation juveniler Körperkrisen (2008)
    Bielefeld : transcript Verlag | Berlin : Walter de Gruyter GmbH
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    ISBN: 9783839409541
    Language: German
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (230 Seiten) , Illustrationen
    Series Statement: KörperKulturen
    DDC: 306.4613083
    Keywords: Health behavior ; Health education ; Kind ; Kommunikationsforschung ; Leistungsschwäche ; Obesity in children ; Overweight children ; Social Sciences ; Sociology, other ; Sociology ; Sozialwissenschaften, Soziologie, Anthropologie ; Ubergewicht ; Hochschulschrift
    Abstract: Immer neue Zahlenparaden belegen, was uns im Alltag 'natürlich' vertraut zu sein scheint: Deutsche Kinder haben ein Gewichts- und Fitnessproblem. Die Studie vollzieht den Switch von kommunizierter Aufgeregtheit und Betroffenheit auf die theoriegeleitete Analyse ihrer Erfolgsbedingungen. Im Anschluss an die Systemtheorie Luhmanns werden die vielfältigen gesellschaftlichen Diskurse über Bewegungsarmut und Übergewicht bei Kindern einer kommunikationstheoretischen Analyse unterzogen. Was man zu sehen bekommt, wenn nicht dicke und unfitte Kinder selbst, sondern die Kommunikation über sie in den Blick gerät, wird am Beispiel sozialer Beobachter wie Massenmedien, Politik, Sport, Erziehung und Wissenschaft vorgeführt. Neben den Mechanismen und Risiken dieser Variante moderner Krisenkommunikation steht dabei nicht zuletzt die Fragwürdigkeit ihrer moralischen Effekte zur Diskussion.
    DOI: 10.1515/9783839409541
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