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    New Haven : Yale University Press | Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest
    ISBN: 9780300271683
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (280 pages)
    DDC: 305.23094109031
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    Keywords: Electronic books
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    URL: Volltext  (URL des Erstveröffentlichers)
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  • 2
    ISBN: 9780300248425 , 9780300233766
    Language: English
    Pages: xiv, 177 Seiten
    DDC: 305.50944
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  • 3
    ISBN: 9780300234176
    Language: English
    Pages: xxxi, 326 Seiten , 164 x 241 x 36
    Additional Information: Rezensiert in Brown, Joseph M. [Rezension von: Tufekci, Zeynep, Twitter and tear gas] 2021
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als Tufekci, Zeynep Twitter and tear gas
    DDC: 302.30285
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    Keywords: Social media Political aspects ; Online social networks Political aspects ; Social movements ; Protest movements ; Protestbewegung ; Politischer Protest ; Politische Mobilisierung ; Soziales Netzwerk ; Social Media ; Massenmedien ; Gegenmaßnahme ; Macht ; Erde ; Protestbewegung ; Social Media ; Internet ; Social Media ; Protestbewegung
    Abstract: A firsthand account and incisive analysis of modern protest, revealing internet-fueled social movements’ greatest strengths and frequent challenges. To understand a thwarted Turkish coup, an anti–Wall Street encampment, and a packed Tahrir Square, we must first comprehend the power and the weaknesses of using new technologies to mobilize large numbers of people. An incisive observer, writer, and participant in today’s social movements, Zeynep Tufekci explains in this accessible and compelling book the nuanced trajectories of modern protests—how they form, how they operate differently from past protests, and why they have difficulty persisting in their long-term quests for change. Tufekci speaks from direct experience, combining on-the-ground interviews with insightful analysis. She describes how the internet helped the Zapatista uprisings in Mexico, the necessity of remote Twitter users to organize medical supplies during Arab Spring, the refusal to use bullhorns in the Occupy Movement that started in New York, and the empowering effect of tear gas in Istanbul’s Gezi Park. These details from life inside social movements complete a moving investigation of authority, technology, and culture—and offer essential insights into the future of governance.
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  • 4
    ISBN: 9780300224207
    Language: English
    Pages: xv, 207 Seiten , 22 cm
    DDC: 307.1/216
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    Keywords: City planning Environmental aspects ; Global warming ; Cities and towns Growth ; Stadt ; Klimaänderung
    Abstract: A pointed argument that cities-not nation-states-can and must take the lead in fighting climate change. Climate change is the most urgent challenge we face in an interdependent world where independent nations have grown increasingly unable to cooperate effectively, even on the urgent issue of sustainability. Can cities do better? Benjamin R. Barber argues that with more than half the world's population, 80 percent of both its GDP and its greenhouse gas emissions, and a common will to cooperate, they can. In this compelling sequel to If Mayors Ruled the World, Barber assesses both broad principles and specific strategies like fracking bans, walkable cities, above-ground mining of precious resources, energy and heating drawn from garbage incineration, downtown wind turbines, and skyscrapers built from wood. He shows how cities working together on climate change can find common measures by which to evaluate the radically different policies they pursue. This is a book for a world in which combating climate change is about nothing less than cities' survival
    Abstract: Introduction : politics not science -- Part One. Making politics work for science. The social contract and the rights of cities -- The devolution revolution and the politics of COP 21 -- Climate change in the anthropocene -- The facts are mute, money talks -- Privatization and market fundamentalism -- Political institutions old and new : cities not nation-states -- The road to global governance -- Climate justice : making sustainability and resilience complementary -- The end of sovereignty redux : a global parliament of mayors -- Part Two. Making democracy work for politics. Common principles and urban action -- The politics of commensurability and the challenge of trust -- City sovereignty and the need for urban networks -- A practical climate action agenda -- Exemplary cities -- Trust among cities : an index of commensurability -- Realizing the urban climate agenda
    Note: Literaturverzeichnis: Seite 177-193 und Index
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  • 5
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    Book
    New Haven : Yale University Press
    ISBN: 9780300182910 , 9780300240214
    Language: English
    Pages: xvii, 312 Seiten , Illustrationen, Diagramme, Karten
    Series Statement: Yale agrarian studies series
    DDC: 900
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    Keywords: Agriculture Origin ; Agriculture and state History ; Agriculture Social aspects ; History ; Nationenbildung ; Staat ; Gründung ; Staatslehre ; Gesellschaftsordnung ; Politisches System ; Herrschaftssystem ; Wirtschaft ; Politik ; Geschichte ; Erde ; Landwirtschaft ; Staat ; Gesellschaft ; Geschichte
    Abstract: An account of all the new and surprising evidence now available for the beginnings of the earliest civilizations that contradict the standard narrative. Why did humans abandon hunting and gathering for sedentary communities dependent on livestock and cereal grains, and governed by precursors of today's states? Most people believe that plant and animal domestication allowed humans, finally, to settle down and form agricultural villages, towns, and states, which made possible civilization, law, public order, and a presumably secure way of living. But archaeological and historical evidence challenges this narrative. The first agrarian states, says James C. Scott, were born of accumulations of domestications: first fire, then plants, livestock, subjects of the state, captives, and finally women in the patriarchal family-all of which can be viewed as a way of gaining control over reproduction. Scott explores why we avoided sedentism and plow agriculture, the advantages of mobile subsistence, the unforeseeable disease epidemics arising from crowding plants, animals, and grain, and why all early states are based on millets and cereal grains and unfree labor. He also discusses the "barbarians" who long evaded state control, as a way of understanding continuing tension between states and nonsubject peoples
    Abstract: A narrative in tatters : what I didn't know -- The domestication of fire, plants, animals, and... us -- Landscaping the world : the domus complex -- Zoonoses : a perfect epidemiological storm -- Agro-ecology of the early state -- Population control : bondage and war -- Fragility of the early state : collapse as disassembly -- The golden age of the barbarians
    Note: Literaturverzeichnis: Seite 279-300 , Hier auch später erschienene, unveränderte Nachdrucke
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  • 6
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    Book
    New Haven : Yale University Press
    ISBN: 9780300214260
    Language: English
    Pages: xi, 243 Seiten , Illustrationen
    DDC: 808.5
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    Keywords: Elocutionists ; Eloquence in literature ; Oral communication ; Voice culture ; Storytelling ; Sprachkompetenz ; Rhetorik
    Abstract: "We all know eloquence when we hear it. But what exactly is it? And how might we gain more of it for ourselves? This entertaining and, yes, eloquent book illuminates the power of language from a linguistic point of view and provides fascinating insights into the way we use words. David Crystal, a world-renowned expert on the history and usage of the English language, probes the intricate workings of eloquence. His lively analysis encompasses everyday situations (wedding speeches, business presentations, storytelling) as well as the oratory of great public gatherings. Crystal focuses on the here and now of eloquent speaking--from pitch, pace, and prosody to jokes, appropriateness, and how to wield a microphone. He explains what is going on moment by moment and examines each facet of eloquence. He also investigates topics such as the way current technologies help or hinder our verbal powers, the psychological effects of verbal excellence, and why certain places or peoples are thought to be more eloquent than others. In the core analysis of the book, Crystal offers an extended and close dissection of Barack Obama's electrifying "Yes we can" speech of 2008, in which the president demonstrated full mastery of virtually every element of eloquence--from the simple use of parallelism and an awareness of what not to say, to his brilliant conclusion constructed around two powerful words: dreams and answers"--
    Abstract: "We all know eloquence when we hear it. But what exactly is it? And how might we gain more of it for ourselves? This entertaining and, yes, eloquent book illuminates the power of language from a linguistic point of view and provides fascinating insights into the way we use words. David Crystal, a world-renowned expert on the history and usage of the English language, probes the intricate workings of eloquence. His lively analysis encompasses everyday situations (wedding speeches, business presentations, storytelling) as well as the oratory of great public gatherings. Crystal focuses on the here and now of eloquent speaking--from pitch, pace, and prosody to jokes, appropriateness, and how to wield a microphone. He explains what is going on moment by moment and examines each facet of eloquence. He also investigates topics such as the way current technologies help or hinder our verbal powers, the psychological effects of verbal excellence, and why certain places or peoples are thought to be more eloquent than others. In the core analysis of the book, Crystal offers an extended and close dissection of Barack Obama's electrifying "Yes we can" speech of 2008, in which the president demonstrated full mastery of virtually every element of eloquence--from the simple use of parallelism and an awareness of what not to say, to his brilliant conclusion constructed around two powerful words: dreams and answers"--
    Note: Literaturverzeichnis: Seite 236-237
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  • 7
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    Book
    New Haven : Yale University Press
    ISBN: 9780300186154
    Language: English
    Pages: vii, 306 Seiten
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  • 8
    ISBN: 0300093187 , 9780300093186
    Language: English
    Pages: xiv, 306 Seiten
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als Diasporas of the mind
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    Keywords: Jewish literature History and criticism 20th century ; Jewish literature History and criticism 21st century ; Postcolonialism in literature ; Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945), in literature ; Jüdische Literatur ; Postkoloniale Literatur ; Diaspora
    Abstract: In this fascinating and erudite book, Bryan Cheyette throws new light on a wide range of modern and contemporary writers - some at the heart of the canon, others more marginal - to explore the power and limitations of the diasporic imagination after the Second World War. Moving from early responses to the death camps and decolonisation, through internationally prominent literature after the Second World War, the book culminates in fresh engagements with contemporary Jewish, post-ethnic and postcolonial writers. Cheyette regards many of the 20th- and 21st-century luminaries he examines - among them Hannah Arendt, Anita Desai, Frantz Fanon, Albert Memmi, Primo Levi, Caryl Phillips, Philip Roth, Salman Rushdie, Edward Said, Zadie Smith and Muriel Spark - as critical exemplars of the diasporic imagination. Against the discrete disciplinary thinking of the academy, he elaborates and argues for a new comparative approach across Jewish and postcolonial histories and literatures
    Description / Table of Contents: Diasporas of the mindDiaspora and colonialism : Frantz Fanon, Albert Memmi and the cosmopolitan JewDiaspora and the Holocaust : Primo Levi, Jean Amery and the art of returning the blowDiaspora, 'race' and redemption : Muriel Spark and the trauma of AfricaThe American diaspora: Philip Roth and the national turnDiaspora and postcolonialism: Salman Rushdie and the JewsDiaspora and postethnicity.
    Note: Literaturverzeichnis: Seite [265]-295
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  • 9
    ISBN: 0300024541
    Language: English
    Pages: XV, 328 S. , graph. Darst.
    DDC: 331.763096781
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    Keywords: Agricultural laborers Africa, East ; History ; Slavery Africa, East ; History ; Agriculture Economic aspects ; Africa, East ; History ; Plantation life Africa, East ; History ; Ostafrika Landarbeiter ; Kolonialverwaltung ; Kolonialwirtschaft ; Sklaverei ; Landwirtschaft ; Plantagenwirtschaft ; Geschichte ; Vereinigtes Königreich ; Tansania ; Sansibar (bis 1964) ; Arbeitsbeziehungen ; Kenia ; Coast (Kenya) ; Grundbesitz ; Landlose Bauern/Pächter ; Africa, East Colonial influence ; History ; Kenia ; Arbeiter ; Plantage ; Geschichte 1890-1925 ; Sansibar ; Arbeiter ; Plantage ; Geschichte 1890-1925 ; Plantagenwirtschaft ; Sansibar ; Kenia ; Geschichte 1890-1925
    Note: Literaturverz. S. 303 - 317 und Index
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