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  • 1
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    Labor Versus Empire : Race, Gender, Migration (2004)
    Abingdon, Oxon : Taylor and Francis | Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest
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    ISBN: 9780203327180
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (286 pages)
    Edition: 1st ed.
    DDC: 306.3/6
    Keywords: Konferenzschrift
    Abstract: The essays in this collection address issues significant to labor within regional, national and international contexts. Themes of the chapters will focus on managed labor migration; organizing in multi-ethnic and multi-national contexts; global economics and labor; global economics and inequality; gender and labor; racism and globalization; regional trade agreements and labor.
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  • 2
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    Arguing With Anthropology : An Introduction to Critical Theories of the Gift (2004)
    Florence : Taylor and Francis | Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest
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    ISBN: 9780203491140
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (255 pages)
    Edition: 1st ed.
    DDC: 394
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    CC 6600
    Keywords: Geschenk ; Anthropologie ; Sozialer Austausch
    Abstract: Arguing with Anthropology is a fresh and wholly original guide to key elements in anthropology, which teaches the ability to think, write and argue critically. Using the classic 'question of the gift' as a master-issue for discussion, and drawing on a rich variety of Pacific and global ethnography, it provides a unique course in methods, aims, knowledge, and understanding. The book's highly original hypothetical approach takes gift-theory - the science of obligation and reciprocity - as the paradigm for a virtual enquiry which explores how the anthropological discipline has evolved historically, how it is applied in practice and how it can be argued with critically. By asking students to participate in projected situations and dilemmas, and in arguments about the form and nature of enquiry, it offers working practice of dealing with the obstacles and choices involved in anthropological study. * From an expert teacher whose methods are tried and tested * Comprehensive and fun course ideal for intermediate-level students * Clearly defines the functions of anthropology, and its key theories and arguments * Effectively teaches core study skills for exam success and progressive learning.
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    Building Diaspora : Filipino Cultural Community Formation on the Internet (2004)
    New Brunswick : Rutgers University Press | Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest
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    ISBN: 9780813537443
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (204 pages)
    DDC: 305.89/921073/090511
    Abstract: Building Diaspora heralds an important development in cultural studies, ethnic studies, the sociology of media, and globalization. Emily Ignacio brings an extended, incisive empirical investigation that is still quite rare in the theory-heavy yet data-light field of cyberspace cultural studies. She carefully crafts a framework in which to showcase the itinerant ideas and desires of Filipinos talking to each other from various geographical locations."-Martin Manalansan IV, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign The dramatic growth of the Internet in recent years has provided opportunities for a host of relationships and communities-forged across great distances and even time-that would have seemed unimaginable only a short while ago. In Building Diaspora, Emily Noelle Ignacio explores how Filipinos have used these subtle, cyber, but very real social connections to construct and reinforce a sense of national, ethnic, and racial identity with distant others. Through an extensive analysis of newsgroup debates, listserves, and website postings, she illustrates the significant ways that computer-mediated communication has contributed to solidifying what can credibly be called a Filipino diaspora. Lively cyber-discussions on topics including Eurocentrism, Orientalism, patriarchy, gender issues, language, and "mail-order-brides" have helped Filipinos better understand and articulate their postcolonial situation as well as their relationship with other national and ethnic communities around the world. Significant attention is given to the complicated history of Philippine-American relations, including the ways Filipinos are racialized as a result of their political and economic subjugation to U.S. interests. As Filipinos and many other ethnic groups continue to migrate globally, Building Diaspora makes an important contribution to our changing...
    Abstract: understanding of "homeland." The author makes the powerful argument that while home is being further removed from geographic place, it is being increasingly territorialized in space.
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    Rum and Axes : The Rise of a Connecticut Merchant Family, 1795–1850 (2004)
    Ithaca, NY : Cornell University Press | Berlin : Walter de Gruyter GmbH
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    ISBN: 9781501718137
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource , 3 halftones, 2 tables
    Edition: [2018]
    Series Statement: The Anthropology of Contemporary Issues
    DDC: 306.3420922746
    Abstract: Janet Siskind goes back to the beginnings of industrial capitalism in the United States to better understand the formation of the country's capitalist culture. She studies the papers and letters of three generations of the Watkinson family. The stories of their lives demonstrate how merchants amassed the capital to become industrial entrepreneurs, organized factories and private corporations, and constructed philanthropic and cultural institutions. The author traces how "upper-class work," the everyday tasks of organizing and maintaining trade or a system of production, shaped the family's experience and New England's culture. The result is an intimate story of social class and capitalism.The reader comes to know several members of this enterprising family, who emigrated from England in 1795. The young women married merchants; their brothers prospered as merchants in Connecticut's West Indian trade. The author shows how their account books, which balanced the imports of rum with the exports of horses, obscured the system of slavery that created their wealth.After the War of 1812, the Watkinsons and their nephews the Collinses turned from trade to manufacturing textiles and axes. Their letters paint a vivid picture of the difficult process of shaping farmers' sons into a disciplined workforce and entrepreneurs into industrial and financial capitalists. Siskind skillfully blends social history and cultural anthropology to provide context for the engaging narrative of the Watkinsons' lives.
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    DOI: 10.7591/9781501718137
    URL: https://www.degruyter.com/doi/book/10.7591/9781501718137
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    Asian Development Experience Vol. 1 : External Factors for Asian Development (2004)
    Singapore : ISEAS Publishing | Berlin : Walter de Gruyter GmbH
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    ISBN: 9789812305329
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource
    DDC: 304.62095
    Abstract: This book investigates the effects of Japan’s foreign aid for development, trade and FDI in ASEAN economies from various perspectives, including: the historical implications of Japan’s involvement; agricultural exports; the development patterns of the Southeast Asian economies; the formation of international production and distribution networks; poverty reduction; upgrading technology; and industrial agglomeration. The contributors analyse trade, FDI and foreign aid from the standpoint of policy coherence at the interface between development co-operation and many other policy areas: trade, agriculture, food safety, fisheries, intellectual property, the environment, international finance, tax policy, migration, and peace and security.
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    DOI: 10.1355/9789812305329
    URL: https://doi.org/10.1355/9789812305329
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  • 6
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    After Whiteness : Unmaking an American Majority (2004)
    New York, NY : New York University Press | Berlin : Walter de Gruyter GmbH
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    ISBN: 9780814744598
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource
    Series Statement: Cultural Front 1
    DDC: 305.809/073
    Abstract: View the Table of Contents.Read the Introduction. "Beautifully written and rigorously argued, After Whiteness is the most important theoretical statement on white racial formation since 'whiteness studies' began its current academic sojourn. By reading debates about multiculturalism, ethnicity, and the desire for difference as part of the material practices of the U.S. university system, it engages questions of race, humanistic inquiry, intellectual labor, and the democratic function of critical thought. The result is a critically nuanced analysis that promises to solidify Mike Hill's reputation as one of the finest thinkers of his generation."-Robyn Wiegman, Duke University "Mike Hill's After Whiteness is an important, provocative and timely book."-Against the Current "A lucid, fiercely argued, brilliantly conceived, richly provocative work in an emergent and growing area of cultural studies. After Whiteness sets new directions in American literary and cultural studies, and will become a landmark in the field."-Sacvan Bercovitch, Harvard University"Americanists across the disciplines will find Hill's analysis insightful and brilliant. A must for any scholar who wishes to, in Ralph Ellison's words, 'go to the territory.'"-Sharon Holland, University of Illinois at ChicagoAs each new census bears out, the rise of multiracialism in the United States will inevitably result in a white minority. In spite of the recent proliferation of academic studies and popular discourse on whiteness, however, there has been little discussion of the future: what comes after whiteness? On the brink of what many are now imagining as a post-white American future, it remains a matter of both popular and academic uncertainty as to what will emerge in its place.After Whiteness aims to address just that, exploring the remnants of white identity to ask how an emergent post-white national imaginary figure into public policy issues, into the habits of sexual intimacy, and into changes within public higher education. Through discussions of the 2000 census and debates over multiracial identity, the volatile psychic investments that white heterosexual men have in men of color-as illustrated by the Christian men's group the Promise Keepers and the neo-fascist organization the National Alliance-and the rise of identity studies and diversity within the contemporary public research university, Mike Hill surveys race among the ruins of white America. At this crucial moment, when white racial change has made its ambivalent cultural debut, Hill demonstrates that the prospect of an end to whiteness haunts progressive scholarship on race as much as it haunts the paranoid visions of racists.
    DOI: 10.18574/nyu/9780814744598.001.0001
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    Boricua Pop : Puerto Ricans and the Latinization of American Culture (2004)
    New York, NY : New York University Press | Berlin : Walter de Gruyter GmbH
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    ISBN: 9780814759141
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource
    Series Statement: Sexual Cultures 1
    DDC: 305.868/7295073
    Abstract: Boricua Pop is the first book solely devoted to Puerto Rican visibility, cultural impact, and identity formation in the U.S. and at home. Frances Negrón-Muntaner explores everything from the beloved American musical West Side Story to the phenomenon of singer/actress/ fashion designer Jennifer Lopez, from the faux historical chronicle Seva to the creation of Puerto Rican Barbie, from novelist Rosario Ferré to performer Holly Woodlawn, and from painter provocateur Andy Warhol to the seemingly overnight success story of Ricky Martin. Negrón-Muntaner traces some of the many possible itineraries of exchange between American and Puerto Rican cultures, including the commodification of Puerto Rican cultural practices such as voguing, graffiti, and the Latinization of pop music. Drawing from literature, film, painting, and popular culture, and including both the normative and the odd, the canonized authors and the misfits, the island and its diaspora, Boricua Pop is a fascinating blend of low life and high culture: a highly original, challenging, and lucid new work by one of our most talented cultural critics.
    DOI: 10.18574/nyu/9780814759141.001.0001
    URL: https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9780814759141
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    Bodies of Inscription : A Cultural History of the Modern Tattoo Community (2004)
    Durham : Duke University Press | Berlin : Walter de Gruyter GmbH
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    ISBN: 9780822396147
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (256 p.) , 22 b&w photographs
    Edition: 2000
    DDC: 391.6/5
    Abstract: Since the 1980s, tattooing has emerged anew in the United States as a widely appealing cultural, artistic, and social form. In Bodies of Inscription Margo DeMello explains how elite tattooists, magazine editors, and leaders of tattoo organizations have downplayed the working-class roots of tattooing in order to make it more palatable for middle-class consumption. She shows how a completely new set of meanings derived primarily from non-Western cultures has been created to give tattoos an exotic, primitive flavor.Community publications, tattoo conventions, articles in popular magazines, and DeMello's numerous interviews illustrate the interplay between class, culture, and history that orchestrated a shift from traditional Americana and biker tattoos to new forms using Celtic, tribal, and Japanese images. DeMello's extensive interviews reveal the divergent yet overlapping communities formed by this class-based, American-style repackaging of the tattoo. After describing how the tattoo has moved from a mark of patriotism or rebellion to a symbol of exploration and status, the author returns to the predominantly middle-class movement that celebrates its skin art as spiritual, poetic, and self-empowering. Recognizing that the term "community" cannot capture the variations and class conflict that continue to thrive within the larger tattoo culture, DeMello finds in the discourse of tattooed people and their artists a new and particular sense of community and explores the unexpected relationship between this discourse and that of other social movements.This ethnography of tattooing in America makes a substantive contribution to the history of tattooing in addition to relating how communities form around particular traditions and how the traditions themselves change with the introduction of new participants. Bodies of Inscription will have broad appeal and will be enjoyed by readers interested in cultural studies, American studies, sociology, popular culture, and body art.
    DOI: 10.1515/9780822396147
    URL: https://doi.org/10.1515/9780822396147?locatt=mode:legacy
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    Rebordering the Mediterranean : Boundaries and Citizenship in Southern Europe (2004)
    New York, NY : Berghahn Books | Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest
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    ISBN: 9781782381907
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (278 pages)
    Edition: 1st ed.
    Series Statement: New Directions in Anthropology v.17
    DDC: 306.09
    RVK:
    MS 3600
    Abstract: Offering a rich ethnographic account, this book traces the historical processes by which Andalusians experienced the shift from being poor emigrants to northern Europe to becoming privileged citizens of the southern borderland of the European Union, a region where thousands of African immigrants have come in search of a better life. It draws on extended ethnographic fieldwork in Granada and Senegal, exploring the shifting, complementary and yet antagonistic relations between Spaniards and African immigrants in the Andalusian agrarian work place. The author's findings challenge the assumption of fixed national, cultural, and socioeconomic boundaries vis-à-vis outside migration in core countries, showing how legal and cultural identities of Andalusians are constructed together with that of immigrants.
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    NOBILITY AND CIVILITY : Asian Ideals of Leadership and the Common Good (2004)
    Cambridge : Harvard University Press | Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest
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    ISBN: 9780674030671
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (273 pages)
    DDC: 303.3/4/095
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    URL: https://doi.org/10.4159/9780674030671
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    International Migration in Southeast Asia (2004)
    Singapore : ISEAS Publishing | Berlin : Walter de Gruyter GmbH
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    ISBN: 9789812306234
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource
    DDC: 304.8
    Keywords: Aufsatzsammlung ; Konferenzschrift
    Abstract: Population mobility increases with economic development and globalization. The migration of people affects countries in many ways -- socially, economically and politically. However, there are fundamental tensions in efforts to manage international migration in a globalizing world. On the one hand, business is transnational as it necessitates the unrestricted flow of people internationally. On the other hand, politics is still national. In an integrated world economy, trade, flow of capital, flow of labour, flow of raw materials and technology are inter-related. This study therefore examines international migration in the context of an integrated world economy. Specifically, it looks at the history of migration in modern Southeast Asia; investments, remittances and welfare; the vulnerability of workers; national migration policies; and the problem of irregular migrants.
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    DOI: 10.1355/9789812306234
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    Nature Embodied : Gesture in Ancient Rome (2004)
    Princeton, NJ : Princeton University Press | Berlin : Walter de Gruyter GmbH
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    ISBN: 9780691187808
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource
    Edition: [2018]
    DDC: 302.2/22
    Abstract: Bodily gesture. A Roman worshipper spins in a circle in front of a temple. Faced with death, a Roman woman tears her hair and beats her breasts. Enthusiastic spectators at a gladiatorial event gesticulate with thumbs. Examining the tantalizing glimpses of ancient bodies offered by surviving Roman sculptures, paintings, and literary texts, Anthony Corbeill analyzes the role of gesture in medical and religious ritual, in the gladiatorial arena, in mourning practice, in aristocratic competition of the late Republic, and in the court of the emperor Tiberius. Adopting approaches from anthropology, gender studies, and ecological theory, Nature Embodied offers both a series of case studies and an overarching narrative of the role and meanings of gesture in ancient Rome. Arguing that bodily movement grew out of the relationship between Romans and their natural, social, and spiritual environment, the book explores the ways in which an originally harmonious relationship between nature and the body was manipulated as Rome became socially and politically complex. By the time that Tacitus was writing about the reign of Tiberius, the emergence of a new political order had prompted an increasingly inscrutable equation between truth and the body--and something vital in the once harmonizing relationship between bodies and the world beyond them had been lost. Nature Embodied makes an important contribution to an expanding field of research by offering a new theoretical model for the study of gesture in classical times.
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    DOI: 10.1515/9780691187808
    URL: https://www.degruyter.com/doi/book/10.1515/9780691187808
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    Language Planning and Policy in Africa, Vol 1 : Botswana, Malawi, Mozambique (2004)
    Blue Ridge Summit, PA : Multilingual Matters | Berlin : Walter de Gruyter GmbH
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    ISBN: 9781853597268
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource
    Series Statement: Language Planning and Policy
    DDC: 306.44/968
    Abstract: This volume covers the language situation in Botswana, Malawi, Mozambique and South Africa 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 have been participants in the language planning context.
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    DOI: 10.21832/9781853597268
    URL: https://doi.org/10.21832/9781853597268
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    A Time Bomb for Global Trade : Maritime-related Terrorism in an Age of Weapons of Mass Destruction (2004)
    Singapore : ISEAS Publishing | Berlin : Walter de Gruyter GmbH
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    ISBN: 9789812305381
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource
    DDC: 303.62509162
    Abstract: What is being done to counter threats of maritime terrorism and how effective are the safeguards? The author presents evidence that Al-Qaeda aims to disrupt the seaborne trading system, the backbone of the model global economy, and would use a crude nuclear explosive device or radiological bomb to do so if it could obtain one and position it to go off in a port-city, shipping strait or waterway that plays a key role in international trade. Improving maritime trade is especially important for the US and Canada, member states of the EU, Australia and New Zealand and for China, Japan and South Korea, Thailand, Malaysia and other East Asian economies that have extensive direct seaborne trade. It is doubly vital for places like Singapore, Hong Kong and Rotterdam that are not only very large global seaports but also giant giant container transshipment hubs. This book discusses some major threats to seaborne trade and its land links in the global supply chain, their potential impact and the new security measures in place or pending for ships, ports and cargo containers, and recommendations for preventing or handling a catastrophic terrorist attack designed to disrupt world trade.
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    DOI: 10.1355/9789812305381
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    We Are What We Celebrate : Understanding Holidays and Rituals (2004)
    New York, NY : New York University Press | Berlin : Walter de Gruyter GmbH
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    ISBN: 9780814722916
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource
    DDC: 394.2673
    Abstract: How did Martin Luther King Jr.'s birthday become a national holiday? Why do we exchange presents on Christmas and Chanukah? What do bunnies have to do with Easter? How did Earth Day become a global holiday? These questions and more are answered in this fascinating exploration into the history and meaning of holidays and rituals. Edited by Amitai Etzioni, one of the most influential social and political thinkers of our time, this collection provides a compelling overview of the impact that holidays and rituals have on our family and communal life.From community solidarity to ethnic relations to religious traditions, We Are What We Celebrate argues that holidays such as Halloween, Fourth of July, Thanksgiving, New Year's Eve, and Valentine's Day play an important role in reinforcing, and sometimes redefining, our values as a society. The collection brings together classic and original essays that, for the first time, offer a comprehensive overview and analysis of the important role such celebrations play in maintaining a moral order as well as in cementing family bonds, building community relations and creating national identity. The essays cover such topics as the creation of Thanksgiving as a national holiday; the importance of holidays for children; the mainstreaming of Kwanzaa; and the controversy over Columbus Day celebrations.Compelling and often surprising, this look at holidays and rituals brings new meaning to not just the ways we celebrate but to what those celebrations tell us about ourselves and our communities. Contributors: Theodore Caplow, Gary Cross, Matthew Dennis, Amitai Etzioni, John R. Gillis, Ellen M. Litwicki, Diana Muir, Francesca Polletta, Elizabeth H. Pleck, David E. Proctor, Mary F. Whiteside, and Anna Day Wilde.
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    DOI: 10.18574/nyu/9780814722916.001.0001
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    Vernacular Palaver : Imaginations of the Local and Non-Native Languages in West Africa (2004)
    Blue Ridge Summit, PA : Multilingual Matters | Berlin : Walter de Gruyter GmbH
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    ISBN: 9781853597749
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource
    Series Statement: Languages for Intercultural Communication and Education
    DDC: 306.4/4/0966
    Abstract: Vernacular Palaver examines the continuing appeal of the idea of ‘the local’ for cultural brokers in West Africa, even in instances where they have a growing interaction with diverse global and continental languages of wider communication. It highlights the contribution of foreign and indigenous languages of wider communication to the formation of the new alliances and sodalities that are testing the relevance of locality, and reshaping the concept of local culture, in West Africa. The author traces the role of discourse about language in West African identity politics from the cultural nationalists of the early 20th century to the religious transnationals of the contemporary period. Using examples from video film, popular literature, the activity of religious associations, and educational practice, this book seeks to advance our understanding of the varied functions of non-native languages in multilingual societies.
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    DOI: 10.21832/9781853597749
    URL: https://doi.org/10.21832/9781853597749
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    Not-So-Nuclear Families : Class, Gender, and Networks of Care (2004)
    New Brunswick, NJ : Rutgers University Press | Berlin : Walter de Gruyter GmbH
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    ISBN: 9780813557793
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource , 2 figures, 7 tables
    DDC: 306.85/0973
    Abstract: In recent years U.S. public policy has focused on strengthening the nuclear family as a primary strategy for improving the lives of America's youth. It is often assumed that this normative type of family is an independent, self-sufficient unit adequate for raising children. But half of all households in the United States with young children have two employed parents. How do working parents provide care and mobilize the help that they need? In Not-So-Nuclear Families: Class, Gender, and Networks of Care, Karen V. Hansen investigates the lives of working parents and the informal networks they construct to help care for their children. She chronicles the conflicts, hardships, and triumphs of four families of various social classes. Each must navigate the ideology that mandates that parents, mothers in particular, rear their own children, in the face of an economic reality that requires that parents rely on the help of others. In vivid family stories, parents detail how they and their networks of friends, paid caregivers, and extended kin collectively close the "care gap" for their school-aged children. Hansen not only debunks the myth that families in the United States are independent, isolated, and self-reliant units, she breaks new theoretical ground by asserting that informal networks of care can potentially provide unique and valuable bonds that nuclear families cannot.
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    DOI: 10.36019/9780813557793
    URL: https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9780813557793
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    Insult and the Making of the Gay Self (2004)
    Durham : Duke University Press | Berlin : Walter de Gruyter GmbH
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    ISBN: 9780822385493
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (474 p.)
    Series Statement: Series Q : 8
    DDC: 306.76/62
    Abstract: A bestseller in France following its publication in 1999, Insult and the Making of the Gay Self is an extraordinary set of reflections on "the gay question" by Didier Eribon, one of France's foremost public intellectuals. Known internationally as the author of a pathbreaking biography of Michel Foucault, Eribon is a leading voice in French gay studies. In explorations of gay subjectivity as it is lived now and as it has been expressed in literary history and in the life and work of Foucault, Eribon argues that gay male politics, social life, and culture are transformative responses to an oppressive social order. Bringing together the work of Jean-Paul Sartre, Pierre Bourdieu, Judith Butler, and Erving Goffman, he contends that gay culture and political movements flow from the need to overcome a world of insult in the process of creating gay selves.Eribon describes the emergence of homosexual literature in Britain and France at the turn of the last century and traces this new gay discourse from Oscar Wilde and the literary circles of late-Victorian Oxford to André Gide and Marcel Proust. He asserts that Foucault should be placed in a long line of authors-including Wilde, Gide, and Proust-who from the nineteenth century onward have tried to create spaces in which to resist subjection and reformulate oneself. Drawing on his unrivaled knowledge of Foucault's oeuvre, Eribon presents a masterful new interpretation of Foucault. He calls attention to a particular passage from Madness and Civilization that has never been translated into English. Written some fifteen years before The History of Sexuality, this passage seems to contradict Foucault's famous idea that homosexuality was a late-nineteenth-century construction. Including an argument for the use of Hannah Arendt's thought in gay rights advocacy, Insult and the Making of the Gay Self is an impassioned call for critical, active engagement with the question of how gay life is shaped both from without and within.
    DOI: 10.1515/9780822385493
    URL: https://doi.org/10.1515/9780822385493?locatt=mode:legacy
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    Studies in Public Opinion : Attitudes, Nonattitudes, Measurement Error, and Change (2004)
    Princeton, NJ : Princeton University Press | Berlin : Walter de Gruyter GmbH
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    ISBN: 9780691188386
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource
    Edition: [2018]
    DDC: 303.3/8
    Keywords: Aufsatzsammlung
    Abstract: In democratic societies, opinion polls play a vital role. But it has been demonstrated that many people do not have an opinion about major issues--the "nonattitudes" problem. Also, the framing of questions in different ways can generate very different estimates of public opinion--the "framing" effect. Both dilemmas raise questions about the competence of ordinary citizens to play the role a democratic society ostensibly expects of them. Although the impact of some factors is well established, particularly political information and sophistication, much is yet to be understood. Building on and reaching beyond themes in the work of Philip Converse, one of the pioneers in the study of public opinion, Studies in Public Opinion brings together a group of leading American and European social scientists to explore a number of new factors, with a particular emphasis on the structure of political choices. In twelve chapters that reflect different perspectives on how people form political opinions and how these opinions are manipulated, this book offers an unparalleled view of the state-of-the-art research on these important questions as it has developed on two continents. The contributors include Matthew K. Berent, Jaak Billiet, George Y. Bizer, Paul R. Brewer, John Bullock, Danielle Bütschi, Michael Guge, Hanspeter Kriesi, Jon A. Krosnick, Milton Lodge, Michael F. Meffert, Peter Neijens, Willem E. Saris, Paul M. Sniderman, Marco R. Steenbergen, Marc Swyngedouw, Sean M. Theriault, William van der Veld, Penny S. Visser, Hans Waege, and John Zaller.
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    DOI: 10.1515/9780691188386
    URL: https://www.degruyter.com/doi/book/10.1515/9780691188386
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    Social Inequality in Vietnam and the Challenges to Reform (2004)
    Singapore : ISEAS Publishing | Berlin : Walter de Gruyter GmbH
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    ISBN: 9789812305954
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource
    DDC: 305/.09597
    Keywords: Aufsatzsammlung ; Konferenzschrift
    Abstract: Social inequalities have grown during Vietnam’s transition to a market-based economy, even as average incomes have increased and the number of people living in poverty has lessened. Do widening social rifts –- between rich and poor, urban and rural communities and along regional, gender and ethnic lines -– have the potential to undermine Vietnam’s liberal reforms and its integration with its region? How has the socialist state responded to these challenges? Based on research and analysis of recent conditions, Social Inequality in Vietnam and the Challenges to Reform offers detailed descriptions of disparities in income, spatial access, gender, ethnicity and status, addressing their causes and consequences. The eleven chapters in this book illustrate the changing ways in which people have accumulated wealth, social and cultural capital in Vietnam’s move from a socialist to a market-oriented society. They assemble data from the Northern Uplands to the Mekong delta to explore geographic variability in patterns of social differentiation. Offering critical insights into state policy, the chapters assess the adequacy of government responses and outline local responses and informal solutions to social disadvantage. This book features a diverse mix of theoretical and methodological approaches and bridges some of the disciplinary and institutional divides that have impeded understanding of inequality in Vietnam. The wide range of themes it covers will make it a sought-after resource for those interested in contemporary Vietnam and the effects of liberal reforms, globalization and post-socialist development strategies.
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    DOI: 10.1355/9789812305954
    URL: https://doi.org/10.1355/9789812305954
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    Language Strategies for Bilingual Families : The one-parent-one-language Approach (2004)
    Blue Ridge Summit, PA : Multilingual Matters | Berlin : Walter de Gruyter GmbH
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    ISBN: 9781853597169
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource
    Series Statement: Parents' and Teachers' Guides
    DDC: 306.44/6
    Abstract: Lots of new parents these days have the opportunity to bring up their child with two or more languages because of increasing job mobility and the global community. The benefits of bilingualism and biculturalism such as higher cognitive skills, an awareness of language and sensitivity to other cultures, are being increasingly recognised. However many parents don’t know how to start, what methods to use or where to seek help when facing problems. Now Suzanne Barron-Hauwaert, a mother of three trilingual children, teacher and linguist who has lived and worked all over the world, has written a book which provides an inspiring approach to passing on two or more languages to your children. In Language Strategies for Bilingual Families she considers several methods of bilingualism and focuses on the one-person one-language approach, in which each parent speaks his or her native language and is responsible for passing on his or her culture. Suzanne questioned over a hundred bilingual families about their experiences and she interviewed thirty families in depth. The results of her study are linked to current academic research, but the book is both readable and relevant to non-academics and provides fascinating insights into being a multilingual family. It will prove an exciting and stimulating read for potential and current mixed-language families.
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    DOI: 10.21832/9781853597169
    URL: https://doi.org/10.21832/9781853597169
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    Psychosomatic : Feminism and the Neurological Body (2004)
    Durham : Duke University Press | Berlin : Walter de Gruyter GmbH
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    ISBN: 9780822386384
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (136 p.) , 5 figures
    DDC: 306.70951090511
    Abstract: How can scientific theories contribute to contemporary accounts of embodiment in the humanities and social sciences? In particular, how does neuroscientific research facilitate new approaches to theories of mind and body? Feminists have frequently criticized the neurosciences for biological reductionism, yet, Elizabeth A. Wilson argues, neurological theories-especially certain accounts of depression, sexuality, and emotion-are useful to feminist theories of the body. Rather than pointing toward the conventionalizing tendencies of the neurosciences, Wilson emphasizes their capacity for reinvention and transformation. Focusing on the details of neuronal connections, subcortical pathways, and reflex actions, she suggests that the central and peripheral nervous systems are powerfully allied with sexuality, the affects, emotional states, cognitive appetites, and other organs and bodies in ways not fully appreciated in the feminist literature. Whether reflecting on Simon LeVay's hypothesis about the brains of gay men, Peter Kramer's model of depression, or Charles Darwin's account of trembling and blushing, Wilson is able to show how the neurosciences can be used to reinvigorate feminist theories of the body.
    DOI: 10.1515/9780822386384
    URL: https://doi.org/10.1515/9780822386384?locatt=mode:legacy
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    Living in Scotland : Social and Economic Change since 1980 (2004)
    Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press | Berlin : Walter de Gruyter GmbH
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    ISBN: 9781474471558
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (256 p.)
    Edition: 2022
    DDC: 303.09411
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    HD 405
    Abstract: Shortlisted for the Saltire Society/NLS Scottish Research Book of the Year Award, 2005Living in Scotland gives an account of the key social changes in Scottish society, describing how it has been transformed over the last two to three decades. Drawing on a uniquely wide range of data from government statistics, social surveys and over-time data sources, the book tells the story of society in Scotland during the approach and arrival of the new century.The authors analyse the large-scale changes which have profoundly altered Scottish society affecting the country's demography, patterns of work and employment, the distributions of income, wealth and poverty, social class and social mobility, educational opportunities, and patterns of consumption and lifestyle.While Scotland shares many of these social trends with similar western societies, its reaction to them is shaped by its own history and culture. The authors argue that Scotland is now a more affluent, comfortable and pleasant place to live in than just two or three decades ago, but that it remains seriously divided and stratified. A significant minority of its people remain disadvantaged and relatively deprived. This represents the major political and cultural challenge for the new Scotland.Living in Scotland is written by three of the country's foremost sociologists. Together, they build a picture of a changing Scotland at the beginning of the 21st century. Key Features:A cd-rom of all the key tables is provided with the bookWritten by three of Scotland's foremost sociologistsBuilds a picture of the changing society of Scotland over the second half of the twentieth centuryUses a uniquely wide range of statistical data sources which are set in context and explained in non-technical ways...
    DOI: 10.1515/9781474471558
    URL: https://doi.org/10.1515/9781474471558
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    Mixing It Up : Multiracial Subjects (2004)
    Austin : University of Texas Press | Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest
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    ISBN: 9780292797246
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (226 pages)
    DDC: 305.8/0092/273
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    Globalization : Culture and Education in the New Millennium (2004)
    Berkeley : University of California Press | Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest
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    ISBN: 9780520930964
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (206 pages)
    Edition: 1st ed.
    DDC: 303.482
    RVK:
    DV 1000
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    MK 8500
    Keywords: Globalisierung ; Kultur ; Bildung ; Aufsatzsammlung
    Abstract: Globalization defines our era. While it has created a great deal of debate in economic, policy, and grassroots circles, many aspects of the phenomenon remain virtual terra incognita. Education is at the heart of this continent of the unknown. This pathbreaking book examines how globalization and large-scale immigration are affecting children and youth, both in and out of schools. Taking into consideration broad historical, cultural, technological, and demographic changes, the contributors-all leading social scientists in their fields-suggest that these global transformations will require youth to develop new skills, sensibilities, and habits of mind that are far ahead of what most educational systems can now deliver. Drawing from comparative and interdisciplinary materials, the authors examine the complex psychological, sociocultural, and historical implications of globalization for children and youth growing up today. The book explores why new and broader global visions are needed to educate children and youth to be informed, engaged, and critical citizens in the new millennium. Published in association with the Ross Institute.
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    The Will to Technology and the Culture of Nihilism : Heidegger, Marx, Nietzsche (2004)
    Toronto : University of Toronto Press | Berlin : Walter de Gruyter GmbH
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    ISBN: 9781442620933
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource
    Edition: [2019]
    Series Statement: Digital Futures
    DDC: 303.48/3
    Abstract: In The Will to Technology and the Culture of Nihilism, Arthur Kroker explores the future of the 21st century in the language of technological destiny. Presenting Martin Heidegger, Karl Marx, and Friedrich Nietzsche as prophets of technological nihilism, Kroker argues that every aspect of contemporary culture, society, and politics is coded by the dynamic unfolding of the 'will to technology.'Moving between cultural history, our digital present, and the biotic future, Kroker theorizes on the relationship between human bodies and posthuman technology, and more specifically, wonders if the body of work offered by thinkers like Heidegger, Marx, and Nietzsche is a part of our past or a harbinger of our technological future. Heidegger, Marx, and Nietzsche intensify our understanding of the contemporary cultural climate. Heidegger's vision posits an increasingly technical society before which we have become 'objectless objects'- driftworks in a 'culture of boredom.' In Marx, the disciplining of capital itself by the will to technology is a code of globalization, first announced as streamed capitalism. Nietzsche mediates between them, envisioning in the gathering shadows of technological society the emergent signs of a culture of nihilism. Like Marx, he insists on thinking of the question of technology in terms of its material signs.In The Will to Technology and the Culture of Nihilism, Kroker consistently enacts an invigorating and innovative vision, bringing together critical theory, art, and politics to reveal the philosophic apparatus of technoculture.
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    DOI: 10.3138/9781442620933
    URL: https://doi.org/10.3138/9781442620933
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    Language in Jewish Society : Towards a New Understanding (2004)
    Blue Ridge Summit, PA : Multilingual Matters | Berlin : Walter de Gruyter GmbH
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    ISBN: 9781853597626
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource
    Series Statement: Multilingual Matters
    DDC: 306.44/089/924
    Abstract: This book argues that the usage of language in Jewish societies can be understood as following from certain specific principles, particularly regarding the relationship between language and identity. Phenomena discussed include the revival of Hebrew, Hebrew in the Diaspora, the survival and ‘sanctification’ of Yiddish, the idea of ‘Jewish languages’, and the role of sociolinguistic phenomena in the Holocaust and the Arab-Israeli conflict.
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    DOI: 10.21832/9781853597626
    URL: https://doi.org/10.21832/9781853597626
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    Print Literacy Development : Uniting Cognitive and Social Practice Theories (2004)
    Cambridge, MA : Harvard University Press | Berlin : Walter de Gruyter GmbH
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    ISBN: 9780674042377
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (218 p.)
    Edition: 2022
    DDC: 302.2244
    Abstract: Is literacy a social and cultural practice, or a set of cognitive skills to be learned and applied? Literacy researchers, who have differed sharply on this question, will welcome this book, which is the first to address the critical divide. The authors lucidly explain how we develop our abilities to read and write and offer a unified theory of literacy development that places cognitive development within a sociocultural context of literacy practices. Drawing on research that reveals connections between literacy as it is practiced outside of school and as it is taught in school, the authors argue that students learn to read and write through the knowledge and skills that they bring with them to the classroom as well as from the ways that literacy is practiced in their own different social communities. The authors argue that until literacy development can be understood in this broader way educators will never be able to develop truly effective literacy instruction for the broad range of sociocultural communities served by schools.
    DOI: 10.4159/9780674042377
    URL: https://doi.org/10.4159/9780674042377
    URL: https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9780674042377
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    What’s Love Got to Do with It? : Transnational Desires and Sex Tourism in the Dominican Republic (2004)
    Durham : Duke University Press | Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest
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    ISBN: 9780822385400
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (294 Seiten)
    Series Statement: Latin America Otherwise
    DDC: 306.74/097293/58
    RVK:
    LB 44640
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    MS 2880
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    Keywords: Sextourismus ; Prostitution ; Dominikanische Republik
    Abstract: An ethnographic case study of sex tourism in the Dominican Republic, showing how the sex trade is linked to economic and cultural globalization.
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    Root Causes of Terrorism : Myths, Reality and Ways Forward (2004)
    Abingdon, Oxon : Taylor and Francis | Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest
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    ISBN: 9780203337653
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (288 Seiten)
    Edition: 1st edition
    DDC: 303.625
    RVK:
    MD 8920
    RVK:
    NK 1300
    Keywords: Terrorismus ; Ursache ; Terrorism -- Congresses ; Terrorism -- Economic aspects -- Congresses ; Terrorism -- Political aspects -- Congresses ; Terrorism -- Prevention -- Congresses ; Terrorism -- Psychological aspects -- Congresses ; Terrorism -- Religious aspects -- Congresses ; Terrorism -- Social aspects -- Congresses ; Konferenzschrift 2003
    Abstract: This team of international experts analyses the possibilities and limitations of preventing or reducing terrorism by addressing the factors that give rise to it and sustain it. The key questions raised include: * what are the main circumstances that provide preconditions for the emergence of various types of terrorism? * what are the typical precipitants that trigger terrorist campaigns? * to what extent is it possible to reduce the problem of terrorism by influencing these causes and circumstances? * should we address those factors that sustain terrorist campaigns rather than root causes? This book is edited by Tore Bjørgo - Senior Research Fellow at the Norwegian Institute of International Affairs (NUPI), Professor and Research Director at the Norwegian Police University College.
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    After Whiteness : Unmaking an American Majority (2004)
    New York : NYU Press | Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest
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    ISBN: 9780814744598
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (283 pages)
    Edition: 1st ed.
    Series Statement: Cultural Front
    DDC: 305.809/073
    RVK:
    HD 475
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    MS 3530
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    Keywords: Weiße ; Ethnische Beziehungen ; Nationalcharakter ; Multikulturelle Gesellschaft ; USA
    Abstract: What comes after white becomes a minority in the United States.
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    Dynamic Terrorist Threat : An Assessment of Group Motivations and Capabilities in a Changing World (2004)
    Santa Monica : RAND Corporation | Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest
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    ISBN: 9780833036216
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (127 pages)
    DDC: 303.6/25
    Abstract: As the war on terrorism wages on, our nation?s policymakers will continue to face the challenge of assessing threats that various terrorist groups pose to the U.S. homeland and our interests abroad. As part of the RAND Corporation?s yearlong ?Thinking Strategically About Combating Terrorism? project, the authors of this report develop a way to assess and analyze the danger posed by various terrorist organizations around the world. The very nature of terrorism creates a difficulty in predicting new and emerging threats; however, by establishing these types of parameters, the report creates a fresh foundation of threat analysis on which future counterterrorism strategy may build.
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    Performing Ethnomusicology : Teaching and Representation in World Music Ensembles (2004)
    Berkeley : University of California Press | Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest
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    ISBN: 9780520937178
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (259 pages)
    Edition: 1st ed.
    DDC: 780.89
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    LS 12100
    Keywords: Musikethnologie ; Weltmusik ; Ensemble ; Volksmusikgruppe ; Musikerziehung ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Aufsatzsammlung
    Abstract: Performing Ethnomusicology is the first book to deal exclusively with creating, teaching, and contextualizing academic world music performing ensembles. Considering the formidable theoretical, ethical, and practical issues that confront ethnomusicologists who direct such ensembles, the sixteen essays in this volume discuss problems of public performance and the pragmatics of pedagogy and learning processes. Their perspectives, drawing upon expertise in Caribbean steelband, Indian, Balinese, Javanese, Philippine, Mexican, Central and West African, Japanese, Chinese, Middle Eastern, and Jewish klezmer ensembles, provide a uniquely informed and many-faceted view of this complicated and rapidly changing landscape. The authors examine the creative and pedagogical negotiations involved in intergenerational and intercultural transmission and explore topics such as reflexivity, representation, hegemony, and aesthetically determined interaction. Performing Ethnomusicology affords sophisticated insights into the structuring of ethnomusicologists' careers and methodologies. This book offers an unprecedented rich history and contemporary examination of academic world music performance in the West, especially in the United States. "Performing Ethnomusicology is an important book not only within the field of ethnomusicology itself, but for scholars in all disciplines engaged in aspects of performance-historical musicology, anthropology, folklore, and cultural studies. The individual articles offer a provocative and disparate array of threads and themes, which Solís skillfully weaves together in his introductory essay. A book of great importance and long overdue."-R. Anderson Sutton, author of Calling Back the Spirit Contributors: Gage Averill, Kelly Gross, David Harnish, Mantle Hood, David W. Hughes, Michelle Kisliuk, David Locke, Scott Marcus, Hankus Netsky,...
    Abstract: Ali Jihad Racy, Anne K. Rasmussen, Ted Solís, Hardja Susilo, Sumarsam, Ricardo D. Trimillos, Roger Vetter, J. Lawrence Witzleben.
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    Native to the Nation : Disciplining Landscapes and Bodies in Australia (2004)
    Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press | Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest
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    ISBN: 9780816695942
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (283 pages)
    Series Statement: Borderlines
    DDC: 305.8/00994
    RVK:
    HD 315
    RVK:
    LC 56680
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    LB 48680
    Keywords: Landschaftspflege ; Nationalcharakter ; Multikulturelle Gesellschaft ; Nationenbildung ; Ethnische Beziehungen ; Australien
    Abstract: In a world increasingly marked by migration and dislocation, the question of displacement, and of establishing a sense of belonging, has become ever more common and ever more urgent. But what of those who stay in place? How do people who remain in their place of origin or ancestral homeland rearticulate a sense of connection, of belonging, when ownership of the territory they occupy is contested? Focusing on Australia, Allaine Cerwonka examines the physical and narrative spatial practices by which people reclaim territory in the wake of postcolonial claims to land by indigenous people and new immigration of "foreigners." As a multicultural, postcolonial nation whose claims to land until recently were premised on the notion of the continent as "empty" (terra nullius), Australia offers an especially rich lens for understanding the reterritorialization of the nation-state in an era of globalization. To this end, Native to the Nation provides a multisited ethnography of two communities in Melbourne, the Fitzroy Police Station and the East Melbourne Garden Club, allowing us to see how bodies are managed and nations physically constructed in everyday confrontations and cultivations.
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    They Took My Father : Finnish Americans in Stalin's Russia (2004)
    Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press | Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest
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    ISBN: 9780816695874
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (208 pages)
    DDC: 305.894541047092
    Abstract: A riveting memoir of one family's struggle under a totalitarian regime.
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    Romance and Rights : The Politics of Interracial Intimacy, 1945-1954 (2004)
    Jackson : University Press of Mississippi | Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest
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    ISBN: 9781604730593
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (206 pages)
    DDC: 306.846097309044
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    Keywords: Ethnische Beziehungen ; Rassenmischung ; USA
    Abstract: Romance and Rights: The Politics of Interracial Intimacy, 1945-1954 studies the meaning of interracial romance, love, and sex in the ten years after World War II. How was interracial romance treated in popular culture by civil rights leaders, African American soldiers, and white segregationists? Previous studies focus on the period beginning in 1967 when the Supreme Court overturned the last state antimiscegenation law (Loving v. Virginia). Lubin's study, however, suggests that we cannot fully understand contemporary debates about "hybridity," or mixed-race identity, without first comprehending how WWII changed the terrain. The book focuses on the years immediately after the war, when ideologies of race, gender, and sexuality were being reformulated and solidified in both the academy and the public. Lubin shows that interracial romance, particularly between blacks and whites, was a testing ground for both the general American public and the American government. The government wanted interracial relationships to be treated primarily as private affairs to keep attention off contradictions between its outward aura of cultural freedom and the realities of Jim Crow politics and antimiscegenation laws. Activists, however, wanted interracial intimacy treated as a public act, one that could be used symbolically to promote equal rights and expanded opportunities.
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    Deaf Hearing Boy : A Memoir (2004)
    Washington : Gallaudet University Press | Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest
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    ISBN: 9781563682803
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (176 pages)
    DDC: 306.874/087/2
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    Biomedia (2004)
    Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press | Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest
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    ISBN: 9780816695966
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (236 pages)
    Series Statement: Electronic Mediations
    DDC: 303.48/3
    Abstract: As biotechnology defines the new millennium, genetic codes and computer codes increasingly merge-life understood as data, flesh rendered programmable. Where this trend will take us, and what it might mean, is what concerns Eugene Thacker in this timely book, a penetrating look into the intersection of molecular biology and computer science in our day and its likely ramifications for the future.Integrating approaches from science and media studies, Biomedia is a critical analysis of research fields that explore relationships between biologies and technologies, between genetic and computer "codes." In doing so, the book looks beyond the familiar examples of cloning, genetic engineering, and gene therapy-fields based on the centrality of DNA or genes-to emerging fields in which "life" is often understood as "information." Focusing especially on interactions between genetic and computer codes, or between "life" and "information," Thacker shows how each kind of "body" produced-from biochip to DNA computer-demonstrates how molecular biology and computer science are interwoven to provide unique means of understanding and controlling living matter.Throughout, Thacker provides in-depth accounts of theoretical issues implicit in biotechnical artifacts-issues that arise in the fields of bioinformatics, proteomics, systems biology, and biocomputing. Research in biotechnology, Biomedia suggests, flouts our assumptions about the division between biological and technological systems. New ways of thinking about this division are needed if we are to understand the cultural, social, and philosophical dimensions of such research, and this book marks a significant advance in the coming intellectual revolution.
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    Colonization of Psychic Space : A Psychoanalytic Social Theory of Oppression (2004)
    Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press | Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest
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    ISBN: 9780816696710
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (272 pages)
    DDC: 302.5/4
    Abstract: We are, Julia Kristeva writes, strangers to ourselves; and indeed much of contemporary theory, whether psychoanalytic, historical, social, or critical, describes the human condition as one of alienation. Eloquently arguing that we cannot explain the development of individuality or subjectivity apart from its social context, Kelly Oliver makes a powerful case for recognizing the social aspects of alienation and the psychic aspects of oppression.Oliver's work shows how existentialist and psychoanalytic notions of alienation cover up specific forms of racist and sexist alienation that serve as the underside of the human condition. She reveals that such notions are actually symptomatic of the subject's anxiety and guilt over the oppression on which his privileged position rests. Not only does such alienation not embody subjectivity and humanity, it in fact undermines them.Asserting that sublimation and forgiveness-and not alienation-constitute subjectivity, Oliver explores the complex ways in which the alienation unique to oppression leads to depression, shame, anger, or violence; and how these affects, now often misread and misdiagnosed, can be transformed into agency, individuality, solidarity, and community.
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    Both Sides of the Border : A Scattering of Texas Folklore (2004)
    College Station : University of North Texas Press | Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest
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    ISBN: 9781574414134
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (317 pages)
    Series Statement: Publications of the Texas Folklore Society (Cloth), 61
    DDC: 398.209764
    Keywords: Grenzgebiet ; Volkskunde ; Texas ; Mexiko ; Quelle
    Abstract: Texas' songs, tales, and traditions have lived and prospered on the other sides of Texas borders at one time or another before they crossed the rivers. "Both Sides of the Border" contains something foreveryone interested in Texas folklore.
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    Fatherhood Politics in the United States : Masculinity, Sexuality, Race, and Marriage (2004)
    Champaign : University of Illinois Press | Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest
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    ISBN: 9780252091377
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (221 pages)
    DDC: 306.874209
    Keywords: Vaterschaft ; Männlichkeit ; Geschlechterrolle ; USA
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    Cultural Democracy : The Arts, Community, and the Public Purpose (2004)
    Champaign : University of Illinois Press | Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest
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    ISBN: 9780252091407
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (273 pages)
    DDC: 306.470973
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    Keywords: Kunst ; Gesellschaft ; Kulturpolitik ; USA
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    The Road to Seneca Falls : Elizabeth Cady Stanton and the First Woman's Rights Convention (2004)
    Baltimore : University of Illinois Press | Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest
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    ISBN: 9780252092824
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (317 pages)
    Series Statement: Women in American History
    DDC: 305.42092
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    HD 370
    Keywords: Stanton, Elizabeth Cady ; Geschichte 1815-1982 ; Frauenbewegung ; USA
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    Culture of Empire : American Writers, Mexico, and Mexican Immigrants, 1880-1930 (2004)
    Austin : University of Texas Press | Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest
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    ISBN: 9780292797529
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (266 pages)
    DDC: 303.48/273072/09034
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    Tired of Weeping : Mother Love, Child Death, and Poverty in Guinea-Bissau (2004)
    Madison : University of Wisconsin Press | Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest
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    ISBN: 9780299201333
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (253 pages)
    Series Statement: Women in Africa and the Diaspora
    DDC: 305.235086942096657
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    Keywords: Kind ; Tod ; Bewältigung ; Mutter ; Guinea-Bissau
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    Childhood In Crisis? (2004)
    Florence : Taylor and Francis | Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest
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    ISBN: 9780203214503
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (242 pages)
    Edition: 1st ed.
    DDC: 305.230941
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    Keywords: Kind ; Sozialer Wandel ; Großbritannien
    Abstract: Examining debates concerning children and young people, this text discusses the politics of childhood , focusing on topics such as: the family; education and schooling; mental health; crime and justice; and sexuality.
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    Adele Marion Fielde : Feminist, Social Activist, Scientist (2004)
    Abingdon, Oxon : Taylor and Francis | Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest
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    ISBN: 9780203166406
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (225 pages)
    Edition: 1st ed.
    Series Statement: Women in Science
    DDC: 305.42092
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    Keywords: Fielde, Adele M. ; Biographie
    Abstract: Adele Marion Fielde, born in 1839, was a teacher, an evangelist, a social activist, scientist, lexicographer, writer and lecturer. As an American missionary in China, she became a local teacher and evangelist, struggling to reconcile her Baptist upbringing with her restless intellect. As an energetic social activist, she was a major figure in the suffragist movement, the abolition of the slave trade and the founding of two hospitals. As a scientist she conducted seminal research which is still discussed and studied today. This book provides an in-depth biographical study of the life of this remarkable woman, exploring her impact on her contemporary society, and her abiding influence on the scientific and academic communities to the present day. The author examines the social and religious constraints on Fielde's life and work and discusses her efforts to transcend these through the construction of a personal system of belief which emphasized the importance of helping others. He demonstrates how, as a woman of immense energy and intellectual ability, she was able to influence the scientific and political communities despite their prevailing negative attitude towards women. Adele Marion Fielde will be of vital interest to scholars concerned with the study of gender and the history of science.
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    Mexican Aristocracy : An Expressive Ethnography, 1910-2000 (2004)
    Austin : University of Texas Press | Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest
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    ISBN: 9780292798465
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (399 pages)
    DDC: 305.5/2/09720904
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    The Women's Movement in Postcolonial Indonesia : Gender and Nation in a New Democracy (2004)
    Abingdon, Oxon : Taylor and Francis | Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest
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    ISBN: 9780203299197
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (277 pages)
    Edition: 1st ed.
    Series Statement: ASAA Women in Asia Series
    DDC: 305.409598
    Keywords: Geschichte 1900-1960 ; Frauenbewegung ; Indonesien
    Abstract: This book examines women's activism in the early years of independent Indonesia when new attitudes to gender, nationalism, citizenship and democratization were forming. It questions the meaning of democratization for women and their relationship to national sovereignty within the new Indonesian state, and discusses women's organizations and their activities; women's social and economic roles; and the different cultural, regional and ethnic attitudes towards women, while showing the failure of political change to fully address women's gender interests and needs. The author argues that both the role of nationalism in defining gender identity and the role of gender in defining national identity need equal recognition.
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    A Sociocognitive Approach to Social Norms (2004)
    Abingdon, Oxon : Taylor and Francis | Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest
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    ISBN: 9780203167489
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (278 pages)
    Edition: 1st ed.
    Series Statement: Routledge Research International Series in Social Psychology
    DDC: 306
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    Keywords: Soziale Norm ; Sozialpsychologie
    Abstract: Societies and groups attribute greater value to some behaviours and some judgments. These 'norms' are what is most important for understanding how behaviours and judgments are socially regulated. The approach presented examines in particular the social foundations of our judgments.
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    Rethinking Parent and Child Conflict (2004)
    London : Taylor and Francis | Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest
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    ISBN: 9780203463574
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (238 pages)
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    Series Statement: Changing Images of Early Childhood
    DDC: 306.874
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    Abstract: The book draws from Foucault's notion of power-knowledge-resistance and feminist poststructuralism to offer a re-theorization of parent-child conflict.
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    Acting Otherwise : The Institutionalization of Women's (2004)
    London : Taylor and Francis | Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest
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    ISBN: 9780203463789
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (279 pages)
    Edition: 1st ed.
    Series Statement: RoutledgeFalmer Studies in Higher Education
    DDC: 305.4/07/051249
    Abstract: Acting Otherwise concerns the strategies of action that have been used by feminist scholars to attain the institutionalization of women's/gender studies in universities.
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    Small-Town Russia : Postcommunist Livelihoods and Identities: A Portrait of the Intelligentsia in Achit, Bednodemyanovsk and Zubtsov, 1999-2000 (2004)
    Abingdon, Oxon : Taylor and Francis | Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest
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    ISBN: 9780203448601
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (294 pages)
    Edition: 1st ed.
    Series Statement: BASEES/Routledge Series on Russian and East European Studies
    DDC: 303.4/0947
    Abstract: This book examines a number of key questions about social change in contemporary Russia - issues such as how people survive when they are not paid for months on end, 'the New Poor', the falling birth rate, why so many Russian men die in middle age, whether regional identities are becoming stronger, and how people's sense of 'Russianness' has developed since the creation of the Russian Federation in 1992. It examines these issues by looking at actual experiences in three small Russian towns. It includes a great deal of original ethnographic research, and, by looking at real places overall, provides a good sense of how different aspects of social change are interlinked, and how they actually affect real people's lives.
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    Ungendering Civilization (2004)
    Florence : Taylor and Francis | Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest
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    ISBN: 9780203501184
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (257 pages)
    Edition: 1st ed.
    DDC: 305.42/09
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    NG 1600
    Keywords: Anthropologie ; Ethnologie ; Feminismus ; Kulturelle Entwicklung ; Theorie
    Abstract: With nine papers examining a distinct body of archaeological data, Ungendering Civilization offers a much needed scrutiny of the role of women in the evolution of states. Studying societies including Predynastic Egypt, Minoan Crete, ancient Zimbabwe and the Maya - to determine what the facts actually show, the contributors critically address traditional views of male and female roles, and argue for the possibility that the root historical cause of gender subordination is participation in modern world system, rather than 'innate' tendencies to domesticity and child-rearing in women, and leadership and aggression in men. With an interdisciplinary potential, students of archaeology, cultural studies and gender studies will find this full of useful information.
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    Local Communities and Post-Communist Transformation : Czechoslovakia, the Czech Republic and Slovakia (2004)
    Richmond : Taylor and Francis | Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest
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    ISBN: 9780203633953
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (239 pages)
    Edition: 1st ed.
    Series Statement: BASEES/Routledge Series on Russian and East European Studies
    DDC: 306.2/094371
    Abstract: Post-communist transformation in the former Soviet bloc has had a profound effect, not just in the political and economic sphere, but on all aspects of life. Although a great deal has been written about transformation, much of it has been about transformation viewed from the top, and little has been written about how things have changed for ordinary people at the local level. This book, based on extensive original research, examines the changes resulting from transformation at the local level in the form Czechoslovakia. It considers especially local democracy, social movements, and work collectives, and paints a picture of people gradually growing in self-confidence and taking more control of their communities, having lived for decades in a framework where so much was directed from the top.
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    The Language of Work (2004)
    Florence : Taylor and Francis | Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest
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    ISBN: 9780203622827
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (137 pages)
    Edition: 1st ed.
    Series Statement: Intertext
    DDC: 306.44
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    Keywords: Englisch ; Kommunikation ; Arbeitswelt ; Konversationsanalyse ; Textanalyse ; Lehrbuch
    Abstract: The Intertext series has been specifically designed to meet the needs of contemporary English Language Studies. Working with Texts: A Core Introduction to Language Analysis (second edition 2001) is the foundation text, which is complemented by a range of 'satellite' titles. These provide students with hands-on practical experience of textual analysis through special topics, and can be used individually or in conjunction with Working with Texts. The Language of Work: examines how language is used in business and the workplace, looking at a range of situations and data: from meetings to informal negotiations, promotional letters to emails explores representations of work in advertising, career magazines and workplace talk looks at the way people in business interact through small talk, politeness, customer care and management-employee relationships is illustrated with lively examples taken from the real world and includes a full index of terms features a useful section on entering the world of work, exploring job adverts and texts that give advice on CV writing and developing 'transferable skills'.
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    China's Past, China's Future : Energy, Food, Environment (2004)
    Richmond : Taylor and Francis | Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest
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    ISBN: 9780203563205
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (249 pages)
    Edition: 1st ed.
    Series Statement: Asia's Transformations/Critical Asian Scholarship
    DDC: 304.2/8/0951
    Abstract: China has a population of 1.3 billion people which puts strain on her natural resources. This volume, by one of the leading scholars on the earth's biosphere, is the result of a lifetime of study, and provides the fullest account yet of the environmental challenges that China faces. The author examines China's energy resources, their uses, impacts and prospects, from the 1970s oil crisis to the present day, before analysing the key question of how China can best produce enough food to feed its enormous population.
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    Transnational Activism in Asia : Problems of Power and Democracy (2004)
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    ISBN: 9780203563243
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (213 pages)
    Edition: 1st ed.
    Series Statement: Routledge Research in Transnationalism
    DDC: 303.484095
    RVK:
    ME 3370
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    MF 2000
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    MH 12090
    Keywords: Politik ; Nichtstaatliche Organisation ; Soziale Bewegung ; Protestbewegung ; Asien ; Aufsatzsammlung
    Abstract: This book provides new perspectives on transnational activism with a specific regional focus on Asia. By offering an innovative approach, its theoretical chapters and empirical case studies examine macro as well as micro aspects of power and how cross-border activities of civil society groups are related to problems of democracy.
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    The Samburu : A Study in Geocentracy (2004)
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    ISBN: 9780203584811
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (276 pages)
    Edition: 2nd ed.
    Series Statement: Routledge Classic Ethnographies
    DDC: 306.089965
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    Keywords: Samburu ; Gerontokratie
    Abstract: Samburu society is a gerontocracy in which power rests with the older men; men under thirty may not marry or otherwise assert their personal independence. This nomadic tribe from the arid regions of northern Kenya cling to their traditional way of life despite the rapid change throughout Africa. The author spent more than two years during the 1960's amongst the Samburu, and as an adopted member of one of their clans, he perceived how their values and attitudes are closely interwoven with a social system that resists change.
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    Living at the Edge of Thai Society : The Karen in the Highlands of Northern Thailand (2004)
    Abingdon, Oxon : Taylor and Francis | Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest
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    ISBN: 9780203356456
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (263 pages)
    Edition: 1st ed.
    Series Statement: Rethinking Southeast Asia v.4
    DDC: 305.8/009593/09143
    Abstract: The Karen are one of the major ethnic minority groups in the Himalayan highlands, living predominantly in the border area between Thailand and Burma. As the largest ethnic minority in Thailand, they have often been in conflict with the Thai majority. This book is the first major ethnographic and anthropological study of the Karen for over a decade and looks at such key issues as history, ethnic identity, religious change, the impact of government intervention, education land management and gender relations.
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    Elite Dualism and Leadership Selection in China (2004)
    Abingdon, Oxon : Taylor and Francis | Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest
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    ISBN: 9780203300039
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (263 pages)
    Edition: 1st ed.
    Series Statement: Routledge Studies on China in Transition
    DDC: 303.340951
    Abstract: Who are the top political leaders in China? What are the major criteria in elite recruitment? How is job promotion in high politics determined? By studying over one and a half thousand top political Chinese leaders, this book seeks to answer these questions and, as a result, defines how Chinese leadership is stratified. Unlike existing research on Chinese leaders, Elite Dualism and Leadership Selection in China draws on extensive statistical information and data analysis. It evidences how political development in the reform era has led to the division of labour between the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) and the government in governance, leading to two distinctive career paths in the two political systems respectively. Key issues examined include: * the different criteria the CCP and the government demand * the requirements for promotion * the effect of university education on the rate of mobility * the different affiliations of the two groups * the role of cooptation in leadership selection. Many of the elites discussed are still leading figures in China, making this book the most up-to-date and extensive biographical data set in elite studies. This allows for a meaningful analysis of elite behaviour in China for the first time in Chinese Studies. This book will be useful to both students of Chinese studies and comparative politics and will also interest researchers, political commentators, statesmen and China-watchers.
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    Wretched Kush : Ethnic Identities and Boundries in Egypt's Nubian Empire (2004)
    Florence : Taylor and Francis | Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest
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    ISBN: 9780203633823
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (252 pages)
    Edition: 1st ed.
    DDC: 303.4823978032
    RVK:
    NF 8480
    Keywords: Ethnizität ; Nubien
    Abstract: Professor Smith uses Nubia as a case study to explore the nature of ethnic identity. Recent research suggests that ethnic boundaries are permeable, and that ethnic identities are overlapping. This is particularly true when cultures come into direct contact, as with the Egyptian conquest of Nubia in the second millennium BC. By using the tools of anthropology, Smith examines the Ancient Egyptian construction of ethnic identities with its stark contrast between civilized Egyptians and barbaric foreigners - those who made up the 'Wretched Kush' of the title.
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    The Business of America : How Consumers Have Replaced Citizens and How We Can Reverse the Trend (2004)
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    ISBN: 9780203494752
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (214 pages)
    Edition: 1st ed.
    Series Statement: Pathways Through the Twenty-First Century
    DDC: 306.0973
    Keywords: Konsumgesellschaft ; Massenmedien ; USA
    Abstract: First published in 2004. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
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    What White Looks Like : African-American Philosophers on the Whiteness Question (2004)
    Florence : Taylor and Francis | Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest
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    ISBN: 9780203499719
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (296 pages)
    Edition: 1st ed.
    DDC: 305.809073
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    CI 6310
    Keywords: Ethnische Beziehungen ; Philosophie ; USA ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Aufsatzsammlung
    Abstract: First published in 2004. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
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    A Dictionary of the European Union (2004)
    Florence : Taylor and Francis | Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest
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    ISBN: 9781136958441
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (430 pages)
    Edition: 2nd ed.
    DDC: 306.2
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    MK 5100
    Keywords: Europäische Union ; Wörterbuch
    Abstract: Providing concise definitions and explanations on all aspects of the European Union, this new edition also includes details of the ten states which became full members of the European Union in May 2004. The dictionary: * contains over 1,000 entries * explains the terminology surrounding the EU and outlines the roles and significance of the institutions, member countries, programmes and policies, treaties and personalities * offers clear and succinct definitions * spells out acronyms and abbreviations.
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    New Media Language (2004)
    Florence : Taylor and Francis | Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest
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    ISBN: 9780203696965
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (224 pages)
    Edition: 1st ed.
    DDC: 302.23
    RVK:
    AP 11800
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    AP 12900
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    ES 140
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    ES 155
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    ET 550
    Keywords: Geschichte 1980-2002 ; Englisch ; Massenmedien ; Sprache ; Schriftsprache
    Abstract: New Media Language brings leading media figures and scholars together to debate the shifting relations between today's media and contemporary language. From newspapers and television to email, the Internet and text messaging, there are ever increasing media conduits for news. This book investigates how developments in world media have affected, and been affected by, language. Exploring a wide range of topics, from the globalization of communication to the vocabulary of terrorism and the language used in the wake of September 11, New Media Language looks at the important and wide-ranging implications of these changes. From Malcolm Gluck on wine writing, to Naomi Baron on email, the authors provide authoritative and engaging insights into the ways in which language is changing, and in turn, changes us. With a foreword by Simon Jenkins, New Media Language is essential reading for anyone with an interest in today's complex and expanding media.
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    The Future of Childhood (2004)
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    ISBN: 9780203323113
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (178 pages)
    Edition: 1st ed.
    DDC: 305.230904
    Keywords: Sozialer Wandel ; Kind
    Abstract: In this ground-breaking book, Alan Prout discusses the place of children and childhood in modern society. He critically examines 'the new social studies of childhood', reconsidering some of its key assumptions and positions and arguing that childhood is heterogeneous and complex. The study of childhood requires a broad set of intellectual resources and an interdisciplinary approach. Chapters include: the changing social and cultural character of contemporary childhood and the weakening boundary between adulthood and childhood a look back at the emergence of childhood studies in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries the nature/culture dichotomy the role of material artefacts and technologies in the construction of contemporary childhood. This book is essential reading for students and academics in the field of childhood studies, sociology and education.
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    Political Women : The Women's Movement, Political Institutions, the Battle for Women's Suffrage and the ERA (2004)
    Abingdon, Oxon : Taylor and Francis | Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest
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    ISBN: 9780203335314
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (228 pages)
    Edition: 1st ed.
    Series Statement: Routledge Research in Gender and History
    DDC: 305.420973
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    Keywords: Geschichte 1848-1985 ; Frauenbewegung ; Feminismus ; USA
    Abstract: Under what conditions are political elites responsive to social movements, and when do social movements gain access to political elites? This book explores this question with regard to the women's movement in the US, asking under what conditions are Congress and the presidency responsive to the women's movement, and when will the women's movement gain access to Congress and the presidency? The book systematically compares the relation between political leaders and each of the three waves of the women's movement, 1848-1889, 1890-1928, and 1960-1985, in light of the political dynamics that each wave faced. The author utilizes perspectives and methods from the fields of Political Science, Sociology, and History to illustrate the ways in which changing political dynamics impacted the battle for both women's suffrage and the Equal Rights Amendment. A significant addition to the study of women's history and American studies, Political Women illlustrates the important roles that political leaders played in the battle for women's suffrage and the ERA and demonstrates the political savvy among women suffrage activists who recognized the institutional barriers present in the US political system and fought to overcome them.
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    Social Identities : Multidisciplinary Approaches (2004)
    Abingdon, Oxon : Taylor and Francis | Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest
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    ISBN: 9780203338674
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (268 pages)
    Edition: 1st ed.
    DDC: 302.12
    Abstract: Social Identities: Multidisciplinary Approaches attempts to make sense of the increasingly complex ways in which we define ourselves and others. It recognises that we are not simply individuals, or members of a certain class or a certain nationality. Rather, each of us comprises a rich blend of various identities. The book provides not only an eclectic spectrum of the forms of identity and influences through which identities are formed, but also critical treatment of the theoretical tools used to understand these phenomena.
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    The Politics of the Internet in Third World Development : Challenges in Contrasting Regimes with Case Studies of Costa Rica and Cuba (2004)
    Abingdon, Oxon : Taylor and Francis | Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest
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    ISBN: 9780203335352
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (285 pages)
    Edition: 1st ed.
    DDC: 303.48/33/091724
    Abstract: This book examines the political and developmental implications of the new information and communication technologies (NICT) in the Third World. Whereas the concept of the "digital divide" tends to focus on technological and quantitative indicators, this work stresses the crucial role played by the political regime type, the pursued development model and the specific configuration of actors and decision-making dynamics. Two starkly contrasting Third World countries, state-socialist Cuba and the Latin America's "show-case democracy" Costa Rica, were chosen for two in-depth empirical country studies.
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    Political Elites and the New Russia : The Power Basis of Yeltsin's and Putin's Regimes (2004)
    Abingdon, Oxon : Taylor and Francis | Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest
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    ISBN: 9780203180488
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (225 pages)
    Edition: 1st ed.
    Series Statement: BASEES/Routledge Series on Russian and East European Studies
    DDC: 305.5/2/0947
    Abstract: Political Elite and the New Russia convincingly argues that although reforms in Russia have been initiated by those close to the President, in fact local and national elites have been the crucial strategic actors in reshaping Russia's economy, democratising its political system and decentralising its administration. This book analyses the role of elites under Yeltsin and Putin, discussing the extent to which they form a coherent political culture, and how far this culture has been in step with, or at odds with, the reform policies of the Kremlin leadership.
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    Encounters with Violence in Latin America : Urban Poor Perceptions from Colombia and Guatemala (2004)
    Florence : Taylor and Francis | Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest
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    ISBN: 9780203646359
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (289 pages)
    Edition: 1st ed.
    DDC: 303.6/097281
    RVK:
    NW 2639
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    NW 2654
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    Keywords: Stadt ; Gewalttätigkeit ; Guatemala ; Kolumbien
    Abstract: Latin America is both the world's most urbanized fastest developing regions, where the links between social exclusion, inequality and violence are clearly visible. The banal, ubiquitous nature of drug crime, robbery, gang and intra-family violence destabilizes countries' economies and harms their people and social structures. Encounters with Violence & Crime in Latin America explores the meaning of violence and insecurity in nine towns and cities in Columbia and Guatemala to create a framework of how and why daily violence takes place at the community level. It uses pioneering new methods of participatory urban appraisal to ask local people about their own perceptions of violence as mediated by family, gender, ethnicity and age. It develops a typology which distinguishes between the political, social, and economic violence that afflicts communities, and which assesses the costs of consequences of violence in terms of community cohesion and social capital. This gives voice to those whose daily lives and dominated by widespread aggression, and provides important new insights for researchers and policy-makers.
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    Between Sex and Power : Family in the World 1900-2000 (2004)
    Florence : Taylor and Francis | Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest
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    ISBN: 9780203643297
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (392 pages)
    Edition: 1st ed.
    Series Statement: International Library of Sociology
    DDC: 306.85/09/04
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    Keywords: Geschichte 1900-2000 ; Familie ; Kulturvergleich
    Abstract: The institution of the family changed hugely during the course of the twentieth century. In this major new work, Göran Therborn provides a global history and sociology of the family as an institution and of politics within the family, focusing on three dimensions of family relations: on the rights and powers of fathers and husbands; on marriage, cohabitation and extra-marital sexuality; and on population policy. Therborn's empirical analysis uses a multi-disciplinary approach to show how the major family systems of the world have been formed and developed. Therborn concludes by assessing what changes the family might see during the next century. This book will be essential reading for anybody with an interest in either the sociology or the history of the family.
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    Asia Pacific Security - Values and Identity : Values and Identity (2004)
    Richmond : Taylor and Francis | Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest
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    ISBN: 9780203476338
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (223 pages)
    Edition: 1st ed.
    Series Statement: Routledge Security in Asia Series v.2
    DDC: 306/.095
    Abstract: The main theme of this book is that security is not just about defence from external attack, but embraces the protection of identity and values which cultures regard as important, and which they may regard as worth fighting for. It examines Asia Pacific security from the perspective of the values and identities of the major actors in the region - China, Japan, the Koreas and the USA.
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    Working Images : Visual Research and Representation in Ethnography (2004)
    Florence : Taylor and Francis | Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest
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    ISBN: 9780203769362
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (240 pages)
    Edition: 1st ed.
    DDC: 301
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    LB 33000
    Keywords: Visuelle Medien ; Anthropologie ; Ethnologie ; Feldforschung ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Aufsatzsammlung
    Abstract: Visual methods such as drawing, painting, video, photography and hypermedia offer increasingly accessible and popular resources for ethnographic research. In Working Images, prominent visual anthropologists and artists explore how old and new visual media can be integrated into contemporary forms of research and representation. Drawing upon projects undertaken both 'at home' in their native countries and abroad in locations such as Ethopia and Venezuela, the book's contributors demonstrate how visual methods are used in the field, and how these methods can produce and communicate knowledge about our own and other cultures. As well as focusing on key issues such as ethics and the relationship between word and image, they emphasize the huge range of visual methods currently opening up new possibilities for field research, from cartoons and graphic art to new media such as digital video and online technologies.
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    Family Time : The Social Organization of Care (2004)
    Abingdon, Oxon : Taylor and Francis | Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest
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    ISBN: 9780203411650
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (245 pages)
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    Series Statement: Routledge IAFFE Advances in Feminist Economics v.2
    DDC: 306.85
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    MS 2050
    Abstract: The time we have to care for one another, especially for our children and our elderly, is more precious to us than anything else in the world. Yet we have more experience accounting for money than we do for time.  In this volume, leading experts in analysis of time use from across the globe explore the interface between time use and family policy. The contributors: * show how social institutions limit the choices that individuals can make about how to divide their time between paid and unpaid work * challenge conventional surveys that offer simplistic measures of time spent in childcare or elder care * summarize empirical evidence concerning trends in time devoted to the care of family members * debate ways of assigning a monetary value to this time. This informative and enlightening book is well researched, well thought through and well written.  An important read for students of feminist economics, sociology and gender studies, the contributors here argue that time is not money, in fact time is more important than money.
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    Rethinking Ethnicity : Majority Groups and Dominant Minorities (2004)
    Florence : Taylor and Francis | Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest
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    ISBN: 9780203563397
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (252 pages)
    Edition: 1st ed.
    DDC: 305.8
    Abstract: The impact of liberal globalization and multiculturalism means that nations are under pressure to transform their national identities from an ethnic to a civic mode. This has led, in many cases, to dominant ethnic decline, but also to its peripheral revival in the form of far right politics. At the same time, the growth of mass democracy and the decline of post-colonial and Cold War state unity in the developing world has opened the floodgates for assertions of ethnic dominance. This book investigates both tendencies and argues forcefully for the importance of dominant ethnicity in the contemporary world.
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    Himalayan Perceptions : Environmental Change and the Well-Being of Mountain Peoples (2004)
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    ISBN: 9780203597569
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (294 pages)
    Edition: 1st ed.
    Series Statement: Routledge Studies in Physical Geography and Environment v.6
    DDC: 304.2095496
    RVK:
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    Abstract: In the 1970s and 1980s many institutions, agencies and scholars believed that the Himalayan region was facing severe environmental disaster, due primarily to rapid growth in population that has caused extensive deforestation, which in turn has led to massive landsliding and soil erosion. This series of assumptions was first challenged in the book: The Himalayan Dilemma (1989: Ives and Messerli, Routledge). Nevertheless, the environmental crisis paradigm still commands considerable support, including logging bans in the mountain watersheds of China, India, and Thailand, and is constantly being promoted by the news media. Himalayan Perceptions identifies the confusion of misunderstanding, vested interests, changing perceptions, and institutional unwillingness to base development policy on sound scientific knowledge. It analyzes the large amount of new research published since 1989 and totally refutes the entire construct. It examines recent social and economic developments in the region and identifies warfare, guerrilla activities, and widespread oppression of poor ethnic minorities as the primary cause for the instability that pervades the entire region. It is argued that the development controversy is further confounded by exaggerated reporting, even falsification, by news media, environmental publications, and agency reports alike.
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    'Mixed Race' Studies : A Reader (2004)
    Florence : Taylor and Francis | Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest
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    ISBN: 9780203643617
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (352 pages)
    Edition: 1st ed.
    DDC: 305.8
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    MS 3530
    Keywords: Ethnische Beziehungen ; Interethnische Herkunft ; Rassenmischung ; Aufsatzsammlung
    Abstract: Mixed race studies is one of the fastest growing, as well as one of the most important and controversial areas in the field of race and ethnic relations. Bringing together pioneering and controversial scholarship from both the social and the biological sciences, as well as the humanities, this reader charts the evolution of debates on 'race' and 'mixed race' from the nineteenth to the twenty-first century. The book is divided into three main sections: tracing the origins: miscegenation, moral degeneracy and genetics mapping contemporary and foundational discourses: 'mixed race', identities politics, and celebration debating definitions: multiraciality, census categories and critiques. This collection adds a new dimension to the growing body of literature on the topic and provides a comprehensive history of the origins and directions of 'mixed race' research as an intellectual movement. For students of anthropology, race and ethnicity, it is an invaluable resource for examining the complexities and paradoxes of 'racial' thinking across space, time and disciplines.
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    Undoing Gender (2004)
    Florence : Taylor and Francis | Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest
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    ISBN: 9780203499627
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (283 pages)
    Edition: 1st ed.
    DDC: 305.3
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    CC 8600
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    CI 6350
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    ES 150
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    MS 2850
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    Keywords: Identität ; Geschlechterrolle
    Abstract: Undoing Gender constitutes Judith Butler's recent reflections on gender and sexuality, focusing on new kinship, psychoanalysis and the incest taboo, transgender, intersex, diagnostic categories, social violence, and the tasks of social transformation. In terms that draw from feminist and queer theory, Butler considers the norms that govern--and fail to govern--gender and sexuality as they relate to the constraints on recognizable personhood. The book constitutes a reconsideration of her earlier view on gender performativity from Gender Trouble. In this work, the critique of gender norms is clearly situated within the framework of human persistence and survival. And to "do" one's gender in certain ways sometimes implies "undoing" dominant notions of personhood. She writes about the "New Gender Politics" that has emerged in recent years, a combination of movements concerned with transgender, transsexuality, intersex, and their complex relations to feminist and queer theory.
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    Ethnicity, Sport, Identity : Struggles for Status (2004)
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    ISBN: 9780203495636
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (297 pages)
    Series Statement: Sport in the Global Society
    DDC: 306.483
    Abstract: The struggle for status within sport is a microcosm of the struggle for rights, freedom and recognition within society. Injustices within sport often reflect larger injustices in society as a whole. In South Africa, for example, sport has been crucial in advancing the rights and liberty of oppressed groups. The geographical and chronological range of the essays in Ethnicity, Sport, Identity reveal the global role of sport in this advance. The collection examines cases of discrimination directed at individuals or groups, resulting in their exclusion from full participation in sport and their consequent struggle for inclusion. It shows how ethnic and national identity are sources of social cohesion and political assertion within sport, and it illustrates the manner in which sport has served to project ethnicity in various, often contradictory ways. It depicts sport as an agent of conservatism and radicalism, superiority and subordination, confidence and lack of confidence, and as a source of disenfranchisement and enfranchisement. That sport has been, and continues to be, a potent means of both ethnic restriction and release can no longer be ignored.
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    The Chechens : A Handbook (2004)
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    ISBN: 9780203356432
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (357 pages)
    Edition: 1st ed.
    Series Statement: Caucasus World: Peoples of the Caucasus
    DDC: 305.89/99641
    Abstract: This book provides a ready introduction and practical guide to the Chechen people and some little-known and rarely-considered aspects of Chechen culture, including customs and traditions, folklore, arts and architecture, music, and literature. It also narrates Chechen history from ancient times and provides sketches of archaic religions and civilizations. Jaimoukha reveals the esoteric social structure and the peculiar brand of Chechen Sufism, as well as the present political situation in Chechnya. As the only comprehensive guide available in English, this book is an indispensable and accessible resource for all those with an interest in Chechnya.
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    Reorganising Power in Indonesia : The Politics of Oligarchy in an Age of Markets (2004)
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    ISBN: 9780203401453
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (317 pages)
    Edition: 1st ed.
    Series Statement: Routledge/City University of Hong Kong Southeast Asia Series
    DDC: 305.5/24/0959809045
    Abstract: Reorganising Power in Indonesia is a new and distinctive analysis of the dramatic fall of Soeharto, the last of the great Cold War capitalist dictators, and of the struggles that reshape power and wealth in Indonesia. The dramatic events of the past two decades are understood essentially in terms of the rise of a complex politico-business oligarchy and the ongoing reorganisation of its power through successive crises, colonising and expropriating new political and market institutions. With the collapse of authoritarian rule, the authors propose that the way was left open for this oligarchy to reconstitute its power within society and the institutions of newly democratic Indonesia.
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    Adorno, Habermas and the Search for a Rational Society (2004)
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    ISBN: 9780203417454
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (241 pages)
    Edition: 1st ed.
    Series Statement: Routledge Studies in Social and Political Thought v.40
    DDC: 193
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    CI 1190
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    CI 1337
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    Keywords: Habermas, Jürgen ; Adorno, Theodor W. ; Sozialphilosophie
    Abstract: Theodor W. Adorno and Jnrgen Habermas both champion the goal of a rational society. However, they differ significantly about what this society should look like and how best to achieve it. Exploring the premises shared by both critical theorists, along with their profound disagreements about social conditions today, this book defends Adorno against Habermas' influential criticisms of his account of Western society and prospects for achieving reasonable conditions of human life. The book begins with an overview of these critical theories of Western society. Both Adorno and Habermas follow Georg Lukacs when they argue that domination consists in the reifying extension of a calculating, rationalizing form of thought to all areas of human life. Their views about reification are discussed in the second chapter. In chapter three the author explores their conflicting accounts of the historical emergence and development of the type of rationality now prevalent in the West. Since Adorno and Habermas claim to have a critical purchase on reified social life, the critical leverage of their theories is assessed in chapter four. The final chapter deals with their opposing views about what a rational society would look like, as well as their claims about the prospects for establishing such a society. Adorno, Habermas and the Search for a Rational Society will be essential reading for students and researchers of critical theory, political theory and the work of Adorno and Habermas.
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    Geographies of Commodity Chains (2004)
    Abingdon, Oxon : Taylor and Francis | Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest
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    ISBN: 9780203448694
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (293 pages)
    Edition: 1st ed.
    Series Statement: Routledge Studies in Human Geography v.10
    DDC: 306.34
    RVK:
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    Abstract: Individuals, consumer groups, nation states and supra-national bodies increasingly have interrogated the ethics of particular production and consumption relations such as GM foods. Flowing from and bound up with these political concerns is the growing interest in the mutual dependence of sites of (for example) production, distribution, retailing, design, advertising, marketing and final consumption. This timely volume draws together contributions concerned with the production, circulation and consumption of commodities. Not only do these case study examples seek to transcend older understandings of production and consumption, but they also explicitly tap into wider public debate about the meanings, origins and biographies of commodities. Taking a geographical approach to the analysis of links between producers and consumers, the book focuses upon the ways in which these ties increasingly are stretched across spaces and places. Critical engagements with the ways in which these spaces and places affect the economies, cultures and politics of the connections between producers and consumers are skilfully threaded through each section.
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    Latino Crossings : Mexicans, Puerto Ricans, and the Politics of Race and Citizenship (2004)
    Florence : Taylor and Francis | Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest
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    ISBN: 9780203644522
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (276 pages)
    Edition: 1st ed.
    DDC: 305.868/7207731
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    MS 1235
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    MS 3600
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    Keywords: Chicanos ; Puerto Ricaner ; Rassenkonflikt ; USA
    Abstract: First published in 2003. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
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    Framing Terrorism : The News Media, the Government and the Public (2004)
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    ISBN: 9780203484845
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (339 pages)
    Edition: 1st ed.
    DDC: 303.6/25
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    AP 16850
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    Keywords: Massenmedien ; Terrorismus
    Abstract: Terrorism now dominates the headlines across the world-from New York to Kabul. Framing Terrorism argues that the headlines matter as much as the act, in political terms. Widely publicized terrorist incidents leave an imprint upon public opinion, muzzle the "watchdog" role of journalists and promote a general one-of-us consensus supporting security forces.
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    A New Euro-Mediterranean Cultural Identity (2004)
    London : Taylor and Francis | Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest
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    ISBN: 9780203508411
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (228 pages)
    DDC: 303.482401822
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    Keywords: Europäische Union ; Politische Identität ; Politische Kultur ; Kulturelle Identität ; Mittelmeerraum
    Abstract: The Euro-Mediterranean Partnership was formed in 1995 in Barcelona. In this volume, concepts of democracy, civil society, human rights and dialogue among civilizations in the Mediterranean region are addressed in the context of the new Euro-Mediterranean Partnership.
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    The Cultural Complex : Contemporary Jungian Perspectives on Psyche and Society (2004)
    Florence : Taylor and Francis | Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest
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    ISBN: 9780203536889
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (296 pages)
    Edition: 1st ed.
    DDC: 302.3
    Abstract: How do cultural complexes affect the collective psyche? Based on Jung's theory of complexes, this book offers a new perspective on the psychological nature of conflicts between groups and cultures by introducing the concept of the cultural complex. This modern version of Jung's idea offers an original view of the forces that prevent human attempts to bring a peaceful, collaborative spirit to conflict between groups. Leading analysts and academics from a range of cultural backgrounds present their own perspective on the concept, demonstrating how the effects of cultural complexes can be felt in the behaviour of disenfranchised, oppressed and traumatised groups across the world. Ultimately, a clearer understanding of the source and nature of group conflict is reached through discussion of central subjects including: * Collective trauma and cultural complexes * Exploring racism: a clinical example of a cultural complex * Cultural complexes in the history of Jung, Freud and their followers. The Cultural Complex represents a valuable contribution to analytical psychology and will undoubtedly also stimulate dialogue in the fields of sociology, political science and cultural studies.
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    Edgework : The Sociology of Risk-Taking (2004)
    Florence : Taylor and Francis | Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest
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    ISBN: 9780203005293
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (314 pages)
    Edition: 1st ed.
    DDC: 302/.12
    Abstract: What do skydiving, rock climbing, and downhill skiing have in common with stock-trading, unprotected sex, and sadomasochism? All are high risk pursuits. Edgework explores the world of voluntary risk-taking, investigating the seductive nature of pursuing peril and teasing out the boundaries between legal and criminal behavior; conscious and unconscious acts; sanity and insanity; acceptable risk and stupidity. The distinguished contributors to this collection profile high risk-takers and explore their experiences with risk through such topics as juvenile delinquency, street anarchism, sadomasochism, avant-garde art, business risks, and extreme sport.
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    Culture and the Real : Theorizing Cultural Criticism (2004)
    Florence : Taylor and Francis | Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest
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    ISBN: 9780203001448
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (189 pages)
    Edition: 1st ed.
    Series Statement: New Accents
    DDC: 306
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    CC 8200
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    EC 1970
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    AP 14350
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    Keywords: Kultur ; Wirklichkeit ; Philosophie
    Abstract: What makes us the people we are? Culture evidently plays a part, but how large a part? Is culture alone the source of our identities? Some have argued that human nature is the foundation of culture, others that culture is the foundation of human identity. Catherine Belsey calls for a more nuanced, relational account of what it is to be human, and in doing so puts forward a significant new theory of culture. Culture and the Real explains with Professor Belsey's characteristic lucidity the views of recent theorists, including Jean-François Lyotard, Judith Butler and Slavoj Zizek, as well as their debt to the earlier work of Kant and Hegel, in order to take issue with their accounts of what it is to be human. To explore the human, she demonstrates, is to acknowledge the relationship between culture and what we don't know: not the familiar world picture presented to us by culture as 'reality', but the unsayable, or the strange region that lies beyond culture, which Lacan has called 'the real'. Culture, she argues, registers a sense of its own limits in ways more subtle than the theorists allow. This volume builds on the insights of Belsey's influential Critical Practice to provide not only an accessible introduction to contemporary theories of what it is to be human, but a major new contribution to current debates about culture. Taking examples from film and art, fiction and poetry, Culture and the Real is essential reading for those studying or working in cultural criticism, within the fields of English, Cultural Studies, Film Studies and Art History.
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    Picturing the Social Landscape : Visual Methods and the Sociological Imagination (2004)
    Florence : Taylor and Francis | Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest
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    ISBN: 9780203694527
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (217 pages)
    Edition: 1st ed.
    DDC: 301
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    LB 31000
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    MR 2800
    Abstract: We live in a visual culture, and visual evidence is increasingly central to social research. In this collection an international range of experts explain how they have used visual methods in their own research, examine their advantages and limitations, and show how they have been used alongside other research techniques. Contributors explore the following ideas: * self and identity * visualizing domestic space * visualizing urban landscapes * visualizing social change. The collection showcases different methods in different contexts through the examination of a variety of topical issues. Methods covered include photo and video diaries, the use of images produced by respondents, the use of images as prompts in interviews and focus groups, documentary photography, photographic inventory and visual ethnography. The result is an exciting and original collection that will be indispensable for any student, academic or researcher interested in the use of visual methods.
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    Women's Influence on Classical Civilization (2004)
    Abingdon, Oxon : Taylor and Francis | Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest
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    ISBN: 9780203209653
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (209 pages)
    Edition: 1st ed.
    DDC: 305.40901
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    NH 5250
    Keywords: Frau ; Griechenland ; Römisches Reich ; Aufsatzsammlung
    Abstract: Written by an international range of renowned academics, this volume explores how women in antiquity influenced aspects of culture normally though of as male. Looking at politics, economics, science, law and the arts, the contributors examine examples from around the ancient world asking how far traditional definitions of culture describe male spheres of activity, and examining to what extent these spheres were actually created and perpetuated by women. Women's Influence of Classical Civilization provides students with a valuable wider perspective on the roles and influence of women in the societies of the Greek and Roman worlds.
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    The Horrors of the Half-Known Life : Male Attitudes Toward Women and Sexuality in 19th. Century America (2004)
    Florence : Taylor and Francis | Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest
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    ISBN: 9780203009802
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (401 pages)
    Edition: 1st ed.
    DDC: 305.3097309034
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    MS 2900
    Abstract: Now a classic in the field, The Horrors of the Half-Known Life is an important foundational text in the construction of masculinity, female identity, and the history of midwivery.
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    Political Reconciliation (2004)
    Florence : Taylor and Francis | Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest
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    ISBN: 9780203002773
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (191 pages)
    Edition: 1st ed.
    Series Statement: Routledge Innovations in Political Theory
    DDC: 303.6/9
    Abstract: Since the end of the Cold War, the concept of reconciliation has emerged as a central term of political discourse within societies divided by a history of political violence. Reconciliation has been promoted as a way of reckoning with the legacy of past wrongs while opening the way for community in the future. This book examines the issues of transitional justice in the context of contemporary debates in political theory concerning the nature of 'the political'. Bringing together research on transitional justice and political theory, the author argues that if we are to talk of reconciliation in politics we need to think about it in a fundamentally different way than is commonly presupposed; as agonistic rather than restorative.
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    The Mobile Connection : The Cell Phone's Impact on Society (2004)
    San Francisco : Elsevier Science | Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest
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    ISBN: 9780080518930
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (263 pages)
    Series Statement: Interactive Technologies
    DDC: 303.4833
    Abstract: Has the cell phone forever changed the way people communicate? The mobile phone is used for "real time coordination while on the run, adolescents use it to manage their freedom, and teens "text to each other day and night. The mobile phone is more than a simple technical innovation or social fad, more than just an intrusion on polite society. This book, based on world-wide research involving tens of thousands of interviews and contextual observations, looks into the impact of the phone on our daily lives. The mobile phone has fundamentally affected our accessibility, safety and security, coordination of social and business activities, and use of public places. Based on research conducted in dozens of countries, this insightful and entertaining book examines the once unexpected interaction between humans and cell phones, and between humans, period. The compelling discussion and projections about the future of the telephone should give designers everywhere a more informed practice and process, and provide researchers with new ideas to last years. *Rich Ling (an American working in Norway) is a prominent researcher, interviewed in the new technology article in the November 9 issue of the New York Times Magazine. *A particularly "good read", this book will be important to the designers, information designers, social psychologists, and others who will have an impact on the development of the new third generation of mobile telephones. *Carefully and wittily written by a senior research scientist at Telenor, Norway's largest telecommunications company, and developer of the first mobile telephone system that allowed for international roaming.
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    Television and Child Development (2004)
    Mahwah : Taylor and Francis | Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest
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    ISBN: 9781410610447
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (323 pages)
    Edition: 3rd ed.
    DDC: 302.23/45/083
    Abstract: Television continues to play a major role in the lives of most children and adolescents, but current research also reflects the explosive growth in new technologies and their widespread use by young people. Integrating information from communication literature as well as from child development and other psychological domains, author Judith Van Evra presents a summary and synthesis of what is currently known about the media's impact on children's physical, cognitive, social, and emotional development, to help discern the complex and significant interplay between other forces in a child's life and the use of various media. This third edition contains updated and expanded coverage of research findings and a review of changing trends in media use including computers, the Internet, books and magazines, music videos, and video games as well as television. New chapters focus on basic research designs and methodologies; cultural diversity; health-related matters and lifestyle choices; media's impact on various social-emotional aspects of a child's development; the use of technology for information and for entertainment; and intervention possibilities, parent strategies, and education. An overall conclusions section at the end of the book provides a cogent summary of findings to date and stimulates discussion of questions and ideas for future research. Television and Child Development explores how, and to what extent, television and other media actually affect children, and what role other variables may play in mediating their impact, so that we can maximize technology's potential for enriching children's cognitive, social, and emotional development, while at the same time minimizing any negative influence. This text is appropriate for researchers, teachers, and students in communications, developmental and social psychology, and education, as well as in...
    Abstract: areas of advertising, leisure studies, family studies, and health promotion.
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    Sex, Love, and Romance in the Mass Media : Analysis and Criticism of Unrealistic Portrayals and Their Influence (2004)
    Mahwah : Taylor and Francis | Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest
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    ISBN: 9781410609540
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (318 pages)
    Series Statement: Routledge Communication Series
    DDC: 306.7
    Abstract: This accessible yet research-based text offers both foundational theories and practical applications of analysis and criticism of mass media portrayals of sex, love, and romance in a wide variety of mass media, from entertainment to advertising to news. The multidisciplinary methodological perspective comes out of a media literacy approach and embraces a variety of traditions along the quantitative-qualitative continuum. Focused on portrayals of male-female coupleship, the book is centered around the 12 major myths and stereotypes of Galician's Dr. FUN!'s Mass Media Love Quiz©, each of which has a corresponding Dr. Galician Prescription® that encapsulates healthy strategies--rarely found in the mass media--to counteract that myth or stereotype. Readers learn how to identify, illustrate, deconstruct, evaluate, and reframe the mass media's mythic and stereotypic portrayals of sex, love, and romance. They also learn how to use their own formal critical evaluations to clarify their own values and--as media consumers or mass communication creators--to share their insights with others. Thus, the learning objectives encompass all three major educational domains: cognitive, affective, and behavioral. Part I of this book covers the five foundations: *myths and stereotypes of love and coupleship; *models of realistic and constructive love and coupleship; *mass media storytelling approaches, techniques, and devices; *research and theories of mass media effects; and *strategies and skills of media literacy. Part II is devoted to exploring the myths and stereotypes identified in the Quiz. Following several brief case studies and a summary of related research and commentary, each chapter focuses on analyses and criticisms of portrayals of sex, love, and romance in the content of news and advertising, as well as entertainment using Galician's Seven-Step...
    Abstract: Dis-illusioning Directions. Each chapter concludes with a "Dis-illusion Digest." While critical of unrealistic portrayals and the damage they can cause unsuspecting media consumers, Galician--a media literacy advocate--is not anti-media. Rather, her goal is to empower consumers to use these portrayals with more awareness of their possible consequences, to resist adopting them as models for actual behavior, and to consciously reframe them into more realistic, productive scenarios. This unique text is an engaging classroom resource for media literacy, media and relationships, and media and society coursework.
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    Reclaiming the Local in Language Policy and Practice (2004)
    Mahwah : Taylor and Francis | Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest
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    ISBN: 9781410611840
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (328 pages)
    Series Statement: ESL & Applied Linguistics Professional Series
    DDC: 302.23
    RVK:
    ES 129
    Keywords: Sprachpolitik ; Sprache ; Regionale Identität ; Aufsatzsammlung
    Abstract: This volume inserts the place of the local in theorizing about language policies and practices in applied linguistics. While the effects of globalization around the world are being discussed in such diverse circles as corporations, law firms, and education, and while the spread of English has come to largely benefit those in positions of power, relatively little has been said about the impact of globalization at the local level, directly or indirectly. Reclaiming the Local in Language Policy and Practice is unique in focusing specifically on the outcomes of globalization in and among the communities affected by these changes. The authors make a case for why it is important for local social practices, communicative conventions, linguistic realities, and knowledge paradigms to actively inform language policies and practices for classrooms and communities in specific contexts, and to critically inform those pertaining to other communities. Engaging with the dominant paradigms in the discipline of applied linguistics, the chapters include research relating to second language acquisition, sociolinguistics, literacy, and language planning. The majority of chapters are case studies of specific contexts and communities, focused on situations of language teaching. Beyond their local contexts these studies are important for initiating discussion of their relevance for other, different communities and contexts. Taken together, the chapters in this book approach the task of reclaiming and making space for the local by means of negotiating with the present and the global. They illuminate the paradox that the local contains complex values of diversity, multilingualism, and plurality that can help to reconceive the multilingual society and education for postmodern times.
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    Handbook of Research on Teaching Literacy Through the Communicative and Visual Arts : Sponsored by the International Reading Association (2004)
    Mahwah : Taylor and Francis | Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest
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    ISBN: 9781410611161
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (938 pages)
    DDC: 302.2/07
    Abstract: In an era characterized by the rapid evolution of the concept of literacy, the Handbook of Research on Teaching Literacy Through the Communicative and Visual Arts focuses on multiple ways in which learners gain access to knowledge and skills. The handbook explores the possibilities of broadening current conceptualizations of literacy to include the full array of the communicative arts (reading, writing, speaking, listening, viewing) and to focus on the visual arts of drama, dance, film, art, video, and computer technology. The communicative and visual arts encompass everything from novels and theatrical performances to movies and video games. In today's world, new methods for transmitting information have been developed that include music, graphics, sound effects, smells, and animations. While these methods have been used by television shows and multimedia products, they often represent an unexplored resource in the field of education. By broadening our uses of these media, formats, and genres, a greater number of students will be motivated to see themselves as learners. In 64 chapters, organized in seven sections, teachers and other leading authorities in the field of literacy provide direction for the future: I. Theoretical Bases for Communicative and Visual Arts Teaching Paul Messaris, Section Editor II. Methods of Inquiry in Communicative and Visual Arts Teaching Donna Alvermann, Section Editor III. Research on Language Learners in Families, Communities, and Classrooms Vicki Chou, Section Editor IV. Research on Language Teachers: Conditions and Contexts Dorothy Strickland, Section Editor V. Expanding Instructional Environments: Teaching, Learning, and Assessing the Communicative and Visual Arts Nancy Roser, Section Editor VI. Research Perspectives on the Curricular, Extracurricular, and Policy Perspectives James Squire, Section Editor VII.
    Abstract: Voices from the Field Bernice Cullinan and Lee Galda, Section Editors The International Reading Association has compiled in the Handbook of Research on Teaching Literacy Through the Communicative and Visual Arts an indispensable set of papers for educators that will enable them to conceptualize literacy in much broader contexts than ever before. The information contained in this volume will be extremely useful in planning literacy programs for our students for today and tomorrow.
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