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  • 1
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    Gendering Women : Identity and Mental Wellbeing through the Lifecourse (2014)
    Bristol : Policy Press | Berlin : Walter de Gruyter GmbH
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    ISBN: 9781847426789
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (280 p.)
    DDC: 305.4
    Abstract: Available Open Access under CC-BY-NC-ND licence Gendering Women is an engaging and accessible account of how constructions of femininity fundamentally affect women's mental wellbeing through the life course. Led by women's life history accounts of growing up and growing older in the north of England, this book shows how experiences of becoming and being a woman - in family life, education, employment, motherhood and situations of violence - both enable and erode self confidence and esteem. The challenges to women's mental wellbeing cut across age and class differences and have profound impacts on the material conditions of women's lives throughout the life course. This is in turn a driver of inequality that is often under-recognised in mainstream policy. Based on feminist and ethnographically informed research with over five hundred women Gendering women provides a critical link between gender theory and the lived realities of women's daily lives and will appeal to students and academics in sociology and social sciences.
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    MPI Ethno. Forsch.
  • 2
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    Childhood Deployed : Remaking Child Soldiers in Sierra Leone (2014)
    New York, NY : New York University Press | Berlin : Walter de Gruyter GmbH
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    ISBN: 9780814760925
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource
    DDC: 306.09
    Keywords: Abrüstung ; Jugend ; Jugendschutz ; Kind ; Konflikt ; Soldat ; Soziale Integration ; Auswirkung ; Kinderschutz ; Repatriierung ; Reintegration ; Demobilmachung ; Sierra Leone
    Abstract: Childhood Deployed examines the reintegration of former child soldiers in Sierra Leone. Based on eighteen months of participant-observer ethnographic fieldwork and ten years of follow-up research, the book argues that there is a fundamental disconnect between the Western idea of the child soldier and the individual lived experiences of the child soldiers of Sierra Leone. Susan Shepler contends that the reintegration of former child soldiers is a political process having to do with changing notions of childhood as one of the central structures of society.For most Westerners the tragedy of the idea of "child soldier" centers around perceptions of lost and violated innocence. In contrast, Shepler finds that for most Sierra Leoneans, the problem is not lost innocence but the horror of being separated from one's family and the resulting generational break in youth education. Further, Shepler argues that Sierra Leonean former child soldiers find themselves forced to strategically perform (or refuse to perform) as the"child soldier" Western human rights initiatives expect in order to most effectively gain access to the resources available for their social reintegration. The strategies don't always work-in some cases, Shepler finds, Western human rights initiatives do more harm than good. While this volume focuses on the well-known case of child soldiers in Sierra Leone, it speaks to the larger concerns of childhood studies with a detailed ethnography of people struggling over the situated meaning of the categories of childhood.It offers an example of the cultural politics of childhood in action, in which the very definition of childhood is at stake and an important site of political contestation.
    DOI: 10.18574/nyu/9780814760925.001.0001
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  • 3
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    [Un]Framing the "Bad Woman" : Sor Juana, Malinche, Coyolxauhqui, and Other Rebels with a Cause (2014)
    Austin : University of Texas Press | Berlin : Walter de Gruyter GmbH
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    ISBN: 9780292757622
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource
    Edition: 2021
    DDC: 305.4
    Keywords: Hispanic American women History ; Mexicans History ; Women Conduct of life ; Women Identity ; SOCIAL SCIENCE / Ethnic Studies / Hispanic American Studies
    Abstract: “What the women I write about have in common is that they are all rebels with a cause, and I see myself represented in their mirror,” asserts Alicia Gaspar de Alba. Looking back across a career in which she has written novels, poems, and scholarly works about Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz, la Malinche, Coyolxauhqui, the murdered women of Juárez, the Salem witches, and Chicana lesbian feminists, Gaspar de Alba realized that what links these historically and socially diverse figures is that they all fall into the category of “bad women,” as defined by their place, culture, and time, and all have been punished as well as remembered for rebelling against the “frames” imposed on them by capitalist patriarchal discourses. In [Un]Framing the “Bad Woman,” Gaspar de Alba revisits and expands several of her published articles and presents three new essays to analyze how specific brown/female bodies have been framed by racial, social, cultural, sexual, national/regional, historical, and religious discourses of identity—as well as how Chicanas can be liberated from these frames. Employing interdisciplinary methodologies of activist scholarship that draw from art, literature, history, politics, popular culture, and feminist theory, she shows how the “bad women” who interest her are transgressive bodies that refuse to cooperate with patriarchal dictates about what constitutes a “good woman” and that queer/alter the male-centric and heteronormative history, politics, and consciousness of Chicano/Mexicano culture. By “unframing” these bad women and rewriting their stories within a revolutionary frame, Gaspar de Alba offers her compañeras and fellow luchadoras empowering models of struggle, resistance, and rebirth.
    Note: Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 27. Okt 2021)
    DOI: 10.7560/757615
    URL: https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9780292757622
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  • 4
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    Kulturwissenschaftliche Linguistik : Entwurf einer Medientheorie der Verständigung (2014)
    Berlin : De Gruyter | Berlin : Walter de Gruyter GmbH
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    ISBN: 9783110339482 , 3110339390 , 9783110339390
    Language: German
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (492 p.)
    Series Statement: Linguistik - Impulse & Tendenzen 57
    DDC: 302.23
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    ER 575
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    Keywords: Linguistik ; Kulturwissenschaften ; Verständigung ; Medientheorie
    Abstract: Wiederholt ist die Forderung laut geworden, Sprache in ihrer Materialität und Performativität als ein Medium zu begreifen. Das Buch legt in diesem Sinn eine systematische Begründung einer Medientheorie der Verständigung vor, die Sprache als kulturelle Praxis der Verständigung denkt. Im Zentrum des Beitrags steht die Auseinandersetzung mit den Arbeiten des französischen Philosophen Jacques Derrida, der sich wie kaum ein anderer demZusammenhang von Sprache und Medialität gewidmet hat. Von daher entwickelt eine Medientheorie der Verständigung den Ausgangspunkt für eine linguistische Kulturforschung, der somit eine neue Relevanz innerhalb der gegenwärtigen kulturwissenschaftlichen Debatte zukommt. Zentrale Themen einer solchen Linguistik sind die ästhetische Dimension des Verständigungsgeschehens, die Weiterentwicklung einer linguistischen Diversitätsforschung angesichts pluraler und heterogener Gesellschaften sowie die Untersuchung des komplexen Zusammenhangs von medienkulturellem Gedächtnis und Wissensvermittlung.
    Note: Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 23. Nov 2018)
    DOI: 10.1515/9783110339482
    URL: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110339482
    URL: http://www.degruyter.com/viewbooktoc/product/212562
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  • 5
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    Coming Out : The New Dynamics (2014)
    Boulder : Lynne Rienner Publishers | Berlin : Walter de Gruyter GmbH
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    ISBN: 9781626373105
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (165 p.)
    Edition: 2022
    DDC: 306.766
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    MS 2870
    Abstract: Nicholas Guittar draws on deeply personal interviews with young people to enhance our understanding of "coming out," revealing the changing dynamics of sexual identity. Guittar explores how mainstream norms continue to assert their influence over those with nonnormative sexualities. He also highlights the wide spectrum of coming out experiences. His important work sheds light on why, even though fewer people may remain closeted today than in the past, coming out is not a one-time event, but a lifetime process.
    DOI: 10.1515/9781626373105
    URL: https://doi.org/10.1515/9781626373105
    URL: https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9781626373105
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  • 6
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    Television in the Age of Radio : Modernity, Imagination, and the Making of a Medium (2014)
    New Brunswick, NJ : Rutgers University Press | Berlin : Walter de Gruyter GmbH
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    ISBN: 9780813562711
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource , 11 photographs, 1 table
    DDC: 302.23/450973
    Abstract: Television existed for a long time before it became commonplace in American homes. Even as cars, jazz, film, and radio heralded the modern age, television haunted the modern imagination. During the 1920s and 1930s, U.S. television was a topic of conversation and speculation. Was it technically feasible? Could it be commercially viable? What would it look like? How might it serve the public interest? And what was its place in the modern future? These questions were not just asked by the American public, but also posed by the people intimately involved in television’s creation. Their answers may have been self-serving, but they were also statements of aspiration. Idealistic imaginations of the medium and its impact on social relations became a de facto plan for moving beyond film and radio into a new era. In Television in the Age of Radio, Philip W. Sewell offers a unique account of how television came to be—not just from technical innovations or institutional struggles, but from cultural concerns that were central to the rise of industrial modernity. This book provides sustained investigations of the values of early television amateurs and enthusiasts, the fervors and worries about competing technologies, and the ambitions for programming that together helped mold the medium. Sewell presents a major revision of the history of television, telling us about the nature of new media and how hopes for the future pull together diverse perspectives that shape technologies, industries, and audiences.
    Note: Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 04. Sep 2019)
    DOI: 10.36019/9780813562711
    URL: https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9780813562711
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  • 7
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    Class Lives : Stories from across Our Economic Divide (2014)
    Ithaca, N.Y. : Cornell University Press | Berlin : Walter de Gruyter GmbH
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    ISBN: 9780801454530
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource
    DDC: 305.50973
    Abstract: Class Lives is an anthology of narratives dramatizing the lived experience of class in America. It includes forty original essays from authors who represent a range of classes, genders, races, ethnicities, ages, and occupations across the United States. Born into poverty, working class, the middle class, and the owning class—and every place in between—the contributors describe their class journeys in narrative form, recounting one or two key stories that illustrate their growing awareness of class and their place, changing or stable, within the class system. The stories in Class Lives are both gripping and moving. One contributor grows up in hunger and as an adult becomes an advocate for the poor and homeless. Another acknowledges the truth that her working-class father's achievements afforded her and the rest of the family access to people with power. A gifted child from a working-class home soon understands that intelligence is a commodity but finds his background incompatible with his aspirations and so attempts to divide his life into separate worlds. Together, these essays form a powerful narrative about the experience of class and the importance of learning about classism, class cultures, and the intersections of class, race, and gender. Class Lives will be a helpful resource for students, teachers, sociologists, diversity trainers, activists, and a general audience. It will leave readers with an appreciation of the poignancy and power of class and the journeys that Americans grapple with on a daily basis.
    Note: Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed Apr. 18, 2017)
    DOI: 10.7591/9780801454530
    URL: https://doi.org/10.7591/9780801454530
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  • 8
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    Reckoning with Homelessness (2014)
    Ithaca, NY : Cornell University Press | Berlin : Walter de Gruyter GmbH
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    ISBN: 9780801471612
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource
    Series Statement: The Anthropology of Contemporary Issues
    DDC: 305.5/69
    Abstract: "It must be some kind of experiment or something, to see how long people can live without food, without shelter, without security."-Homeless woman in Grand Central StationKim Hopper has dedicated his career to trying to address the problem of homelessness in the United States. In this powerful book, he draws upon his dual strengths as anthropologist and advocate to provide a deeper understanding of the roots of homelessness. He also investigates the complex attitudes brought to bear on the issue since his pioneering fieldwork with Ellen Baxter twenty years ago helped put homelessness on the public agenda.Beginning with his own introduction to the problem in New York, Hopper uses ethnography, literature, history, and activism to place homelessness into historical context and to trace the process by which homelessness came to be recognized as an issue. He tells the largely neglected story of homelessness among African Americans and vividly portrays various sites of public homelessness, such as airports. His accounts of life on the streets make for powerful reading.
    Note: Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 23. Jan 2019)
    DOI: 10.7591/9780801471612
    URL: https://www.degruyter.com/doi/book/10.7591/9780801471612
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  • 9
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    Missing Class : Strengthening Social Movement Groups by Seeing Class Cultures (2014)
    Ithaca, NY : Cornell University Press | Berlin : Walter de Gruyter GmbH
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    ISBN: 9780801470714
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource , 7 tables, 2 charts
    DDC: 303.48 40973
    Keywords: Electronic books
    Abstract: Many activists worry about the same few problems in their groups: low turnout, inactive members, conflicting views on racism, overtalking, and offensive violations of group norms. But in searching for solutions to these predictable and intractable troubles, progressive social movement groups overlook class culture differences. In Missing Class, Betsy Leondar-Wright uses a class-focused lens to show that members with different class life experiences tend to approach these problems differently. This perspective enables readers to envision new solutions that draw on the strengths of all class cultures to form the basis of stronger cross-class and multiracial movements.The first comprehensive empirical study of US activist class cultures, Missing Class looks at class dynamics in 25 groups that span the gamut of social movement organizations in the United States today, including the labor movement, grassroots community organizing, and groups working on global causes in the anarchist and progressive traditions. Leondar-Wright applies Pierre Bourdieu’s theories of cultural capital and habitus to four class trajectories: lifelong working-class and poor; lifelong professional middle class; voluntarily downwardly mobile; and upwardly mobile.Compellingly written for both activists and social scientists, this book describes class differences in paths to activism, attitudes toward leadership, methods of conflict resolution, ways of using language, diversity practices, use of humor, methods of recruiting, and group process preferences. Too often, we miss class. Missing Class makes a persuasive case that seeing class culture differences could enable activists to strengthen their own groups and build more durable cross-class alliances for social justice.
    Note: Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 22. Jun 2018)
    DOI: 10.7591/9780801470714
    URL: https://www.degruyter.com/doi/book/10.7591/9780801470714
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  • 10
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    Sociolinguistics and Mobile Communication (2014)
    Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press | Berlin : Walter de Gruyter GmbH
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    ISBN: 9780748655755
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (216 p.) , 49 B/W illustrations
    Edition: 2022
    Series Statement: Edinburgh Sociolinguistics : EDSO
    DDC: 303.4833
    RVK:
    ES 146
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    ES 158
    Keywords: Electronic books
    Abstract: Have wireless mobile communication technologies changed the way people talk to one another?What does it mean to be able to speak or write to anyone, anywhere, 24/7/365, and get an immediate response? And what does the current profusion of these technologies mean for the study of language in social life? Do we need to develop new approaches, methodologies and theories?Taking a global perspective, this volume provides readers with a nuanced, ethnographically-informed understanding of mobile communication and sociolinguistics. The text explores a wide range of digital applications, including SMS, email, tweeting, Facebook, YouTube, chatting, blogging, Wikipedia, Second Life and gaming Raising important questions about the nature of language and the creativity of speakers, Ana Deumert examines the role of multimodality and intertextuality in creating meaning, as well as the realities and consequences of digital linguistic inequality.Key features Illustrates core concepts in sociolinguistics and linguistic anthropology Applies sociolinguistic theories of language from Humboldt and Sapir to post-structuralism to new mediaProvides a global and multilingual perspective on digital communication practices and discusses digital inequality and its consequences for sociolinguistic research Includes a focus on linguistic creativity and poetic language Drawing on examples from across the world, as well as original multilingual data and analyses from South Africa, this innovative book provides undergraduate and postgraduate readers with accessible explanations of sociolinguistic theories as they apply to the growing field of mobile communication.
    DOI: 10.1515/9780748655755
    URL: https://doi.org/10.1515/9780748655755
    URL: https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9780748655755
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  • 11
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    The People's News : Media, Politics, and the Demands of Capitalism (2014)
    New York, NY : New York University Press | Berlin : Walter de Gruyter GmbH
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    ISBN: 9780814762868
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource
    DDC: 302.23
    Abstract: Uncovers the surprising cause behind the recent rise of fake newsIn an ideal world, journalists act selflessly and in the public interest regardless of the financial consequences. However, in reality, news outlets no longer provide the most important and consequential stories to audiences; instead, news producers adjust news content in response to ratings, audience demographics, and opinion polls. While such criticisms of the news media are widely shared, few can agree on the causes of poor news quality. The People’s News argues that the incentives in the American free market drive news outlets to report news that meets audience demands, rather than democratic ideals. In short, audiences’ opinions drive the content that so often passes off as “the news.”The People’s News looks at news not as a type of media but instead as a commodity bought and sold on the market, comparing unique measures of news content to survey data from a wide variety of sources. Joseph Uscinski’s rigorous analysis shows news firms report certain issues over others—not because audiences need to know them, but rather, because of market demands. Uscinski also demonstrates that the influence of market demands also affects the business of news, prohibiting journalists from exercising independent judgment and determining the structure of entire news markets as well as firm branding.Ultimately, the results of this book indicate profit-motives often trump journalistic and democratic values. The findings also suggest that the media actively responds to audiences, thus giving the public control over their own information environment. Uniting the study of media effects and media content, The People’s News presents a powerful challenge to our ideas of how free market media outlets meet our standards for impartiality and public service.
    Note: Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 08. Jun 2020)
    DOI: 10.18574/nyu/9780814760338.001.0001
    URL: https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9780814762868
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  • 12
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    Women of the Nation : Between Black Protest and Sunni Islam (2014)
    New York, NY : New York University Press | Berlin : Walter de Gruyter GmbH
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    ISBN: 9780814771242
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource
    DDC: 305.486970973
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    MS 1235
    Abstract: Presents oral histories and interviews of women who belong to Nation of IslamWith vocal public figures such as Malcolm X, Elijah Muhammad, and Louis Farrakhan, the Nation of Islam often appears to be a male-centric religious movement, and over 60 years of scholarship have perpetuated that notion. Yet, women have been pivotal in the NOI's development, playing a major role in creating the public image that made it appealing and captivating.Women of the Nation draws on oral histories and interviews with approximately 100 women across several cities to provide an overview of women's historical contributions and their varied experiences of the NOI, including both its continuing community under Farrakhan and its offshoot into Sunni Islam under Imam W.D. Mohammed. The authors examine how women have interpreted and navigated the NOI's gender ideologies and practices, illuminating the experiences of African-American, Latina, and Native American women within the NOI and their changing roles within this patriarchal movement. The book argues that the Nation of Islam experience for women has been characterized by an expression of Islam sensitive to American cultural messages about race and gender, but also by gender and race ideals in the Islamic tradition. It offers the first exhaustive study of women’s experiences in both the NOI and the W.D. Mohammed community.
    Note: Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 23. Jul 2020)
    DOI: 10.18574/nyu/9780814769959.001.0001
    URL: https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9780814771242
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    After the Rebellion : Black Youth, Social Movement Activism, and the Post-Civil Rights Generation (2014)
    New York, NY : New York University Press | Berlin : Walter de Gruyter GmbH
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    ISBN: 9780814760611
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource , 2 black and white illustrations
    DDC: 305.23509730904
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    MG 70280
    Abstract: Whathappened to black youth in the post-civil rights generation? What kind ofcauses did they rally around and were they even rallying in the first place? After the Rebellion takes a close lookat a variety of key civil rights groups across the country over the last 40years to provide a broad view of black youth and social movement activism. Based on both research from a diversecollection of archives and interviews with youth activists, advocates, andgrassroots organizers, this book examines popular mobilization among thegeneration of activists – principally black students, youth, and young adults –who came of age after the passage of the 1964 Civil Rights Act and the VotingRights Act of 1965. Franklin argues that the political environment in the post-CivilRights era, along with constraints on social activism, made it particularlydifficult for young black activists to start and sustain popular mobilizationcampaigns. Building on casestudies from around the country—including New York, the Carolinas, California,Louisiana, and Baltimore—After theRebellion explores the inner workings and end results of activist groupssuch as the Southern Negro Youth Congress, Student Nonviolent CoordinatingCommittee, the Student Organization for Black Unity, the Free South AfricaCampaign, the New Haven Youth Movement, the Black Student Leadership Network,the Juvenile Justice Reform Movement, and the AFL-CIO’s Union Summer campaign. Franklin demonstrates how youth-basedmovements and intergenerational campaigns have attempted to circumvent modernconstraints, providing insight into how the very inner workings of theseorganizations have and have not been effective in creating change and involvingyouth. A powerful work of both historical and political analysis, After the Rebellion provides a vividexplanation of what happened to the militant impulse of young people since thedemobilization of the civil rights and black power movements – a discussionwith great implications for the study of generational politics, racial andblack politics, and social movements.
    Note: Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 23. Jul 2020)
    DOI: 10.18574/nyu/9780814789384.001.0001
    URL: https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9780814760611
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    Urban Nightlife : Entertaining Race, Class, and Culture in Public Space (2014)
    New Brunswick, NJ : Rutgers University Press | Berlin : Walter de Gruyter GmbH
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    ISBN: 9780813569406
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (222 p.) , 3 figures
    DDC: 305.896/073
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    Abstract: Sociologists have long been curious about the ways in which city dwellers negotiate urban public space. How do they manage myriad interactions in the shared spaces of the city? In Urban Nightlife, sociologist Reuben May undertakes a nuanced examination of urban nightlife, drawing on ethnographic data gathered in a Deep South college town to explore the question of how nighttime revelers negotiate urban public spaces as they go about meeting, socializing, and entertaining themselves. May’s work reveals how diverse partiers define these spaces, in particular the ongoing social conflict on the streets, in bars and nightclubs, and in the various public spaces of downtown. To explore this conflict, May develops the concept of “integrated segregation”—the idea that diverse groups are physically close to one another yet rarely have meaningful interactions—rather, they are socially bound to those of similar race, class, and cultural backgrounds. May’s in-depth research leads him to conclude that social tension is stubbornly persistent in part because many participants fail to make the connection between contemporary relations among different groups and the historical and institutional forces that perpetuate those very tensions; structural racism remains obscured by a superficial appearance of racial harmony. Through May’s observations, Urban Nightlife clarifies the complexities of race, class, and culture in contemporary America, illustrating the direct influence of local government and nightclub management decision-making on interpersonal interaction among groups. Watch a video with Reuben A. Buford May: Watch video now. (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VCs1xExStPw).
    Note: Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 22. Okt 2019)
    DOI: 10.36019/9780813569406
    URL: https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9780813569406
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    Ethnic Bargaining : The Paradox of Minority Empowerment (2014)
    Ithaca, N.Y. : Cornell University Press | Berlin : Walter de Gruyter GmbH
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    ISBN: 9780801471803
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource
    DDC: 305.8009437
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    Abstract: In Ethnic Bargaining, Erin K. Jenne introduces a theory of minority politics that blends comparative analysis and field research in the postcommunist countries of East Central Europe with insights from rational choice. Jenne finds that claims by ethnic minorities have become more frequent since 1945 even though nation-states have been on the whole more responsive to groups than in earlier periods. Minorities that perceive an increase in their bargaining power will tend to radicalize their demands, she argues, from affirmative action to regional autonomy to secession, in an effort to attract ever greater concessions from the central government.The language of self-determination and minority rights originally adopted by the Great Powers to redraw boundaries after World War I was later used to facilitate the process of decolonization. Jenne believes that in the 1960s various ethnic minorities began to use the same discourse to pressure national governments into transfer payments and power-sharing arrangements. Violence against minorities was actually in some cases fueled by this politicization of ethnic difference.Jenne uses a rationalist theory of bargaining to examine the dynamics of ethnic cleavage in the cases of the Sudeten Germans in interwar Czechoslovakia; Slovaks and Moravians in postcommunist Czechoslovakia; the Hungarians in Romania, Slovakia, and Vojvodina; and the Albanians in Kosovo. Throughout Ethnic Bargaining, she challenges the conventional wisdom that partisan intervention is an effective mechanism for protecting minorities and preventing or resolving internal conflict.
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    DOI: 10.7591/9780801471803
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    Sex Scene : Media and the Sexual Revolution (2014)
    Durham : Duke University Press | Berlin : Walter de Gruyter GmbH
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    ISBN: 9780822376804
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (484 p.) , 58 photographs
    DDC: 302.230973
    Abstract: Sex Scene suggests that what we have come to understand as the sexual revolution of the late 1960s and early 1970s was actually a media revolution. In lively essays, the contributors examine a range of mass media-film and television, recorded sound, and publishing-that provide evidence of the circulation of sex in the public sphere, from the mainstream to the fringe. They discuss art films such as I am Curious (Yellow), mainstream movies including Midnight Cowboy, sexploitation films such as Mantis in Lace, the emergence of erotic film festivals and of gay pornography, the use of multimedia in sex education, and the sexual innuendo of The Love Boat. Scholars of cultural studies, history, and media studies, the contributors bring shared concerns to their diverse topics. They highlight the increasingly fluid divide between public and private, the rise of consumer and therapeutic cultures, and the relationship between identity politics and individual rights. The provocative surveys and case studies in this nuanced cultural history reframe the "sexual revolution" as the mass sexualization of our mediated world.Contributors. Joseph Lam Duong, Jeffrey Escoffier, Kevin M. Flanagan, Elena Gorfinkel, Raymond J. Haberski Jr., Joan Hawkins, Kevin Heffernan, Eithne Johnson, Arthur Knight, Elana Levine, Christie Milliken, Eric Schaefer, Jeffrey Sconce, Jacob Smith, Leigh Ann Wheeler, Linda Williams...
    DOI: 10.1515/9780822376804
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    »... weil ihre Kultur so ist« : Narrative des antimuslimischen Rassismus (2014)
    Bielefeld : transcript Verlag | Berlin : Walter de Gruyter GmbH
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    ISBN: 9783839428665
    Language: German
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (260 Seiten) , Illustrationen
    Series Statement: Kultur und soziale Praxis
    DDC: 305.697
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    Keywords: Islamfeindlichkeit ; Rassismus ; Diskurs ; Muslim ; Stereotypisierung ; Diskriminierung ; Hochschulschrift ; Hochschulschrift ; Electronic books ; Hochschulschrift ; Electronic books ; Hochschulschrift
    DOI: 10.1515/transcript.9783839428665
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    Stigma »Indio« : Zur Struktur und Semantik Indigener Exlusion in Mexiko (2014)
    Bielefeld : transcript | Berlin : Walter de Gruyter GmbH
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    ISBN: 9783839427903
    Language: German
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (257 Seiten)
    Series Statement: Postcolonial Studies Band 20
    DDC: 305.512097209031
    Keywords: Geschichte 1519-1650 ; Spanier ; Indianer ; Interaktion ; Ausgrenzung ; Soziale Ungleichheit ; Soziale Schichtung ; Mexiko ; Hochschulschrift ; Hochschulschrift
    DOI: 10.1515/transcript.9783839427903
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    Kultur zwischen Nationalstaatlichkeit und Migration : Plädoyer für einen Paradigmenwechsel (2014)
    Bielefeld : transcript Verlag | Berlin : Walter de Gruyter GmbH
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    ISBN: 9783839427262 , 3837627268 , 9783837627268
    Language: German
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (260 Seiten) , Illustrationen
    Series Statement: Kultur und soziale Praxis
    DDC: 300
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    Keywords: Einwanderung ; Multikulturelle Gesellschaft ; Nationalbewusstsein ; Kulturelle Identität ; Diskurs ; Ausländerpolitik ; Emigration and immigration Political aspects ; Law Mobility ; Social integration ; Ausländerpolitik ; Diskurs ; Einwanderung ; Kulturelle Identität ; Multikulturelle Gesellschaft ; Nationalbewusstsein ; Sozialwissenschaften, Soziologie, Anthropologie ; Deutschland ; Hochschulschrift ; Hochschulschrift ; Hochschulschrift ; Electronic books ; Hochschulschrift ; Electronic books ; Hochschulschrift
    Abstract: For a change of perspectives in the integration discourse: New theoretical positions and perspectives for a practice that is appropriate for the changed reality of migration.
    DOI: 10.1515/transcript.9783839427262
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    Feeling Mediated : A History of Media Technology and Emotion in America (2014)
    New York, NY : New York University Press | Berlin : Walter de Gruyter GmbH
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    ISBN: 9780814770153
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource , 19 black and white illustrations
    Series Statement: Critical Cultural Communication 31
    DDC: 302.23
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    Keywords: Electronic books
    Abstract: New technologies, whether text message or telegraph,inevitably raise questions about emotion. New forms of communication bring withthem both fear and hope, on one hand allowing us deeper emotional connectionsand the ability to forge global communities, while on the other promptinganxieties about isolation and over-stimulation. FeelingMediated investigates the larger context of such concerns, considering bothhow media technologies intersect with our emotional lives and how our ideasabout these intersections influence how we think about and experience emotionand technology themselves.Drawing on extensive archival research, Brenton J. Malin exploresthe historical roots of much of our recent understanding of mediated feelings,showing how earlier ideas about the telegraph, phonograph, radio, motionpictures, and other once-new technologies continue to inform our contemporarythinking. With insightful analysis, FeelingMediated explores a series of fascinating arguments about technology andemotion that became especially heated during the early 20th century. These debates, which carried forward andtransformed earlier discussions of technology and emotion, culminated in a setof ideas that became institutionalized in the structures of American mediaproduction, advertising, social research, and policy, leaving a lasting impact onour everyday lives.
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    DOI: 10.18574/nyu/9780814762790.001.0001
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    Erinnern als Interaktion : Die Gemeinschaft ostdeutscher Trassenerbauer im Transformationsprozess (2014)
    Berlin : De Gruyter Oldenbourg | Berlin : Walter de Gruyter GmbH
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    ISBN: 9783110507201
    Language: German
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource
    Edition: [2016]
    Series Statement: Qualitative Soziologie 20
    DDC: 307.072
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    Keywords: Geschichte 1998-2008 ; Gemeinschaft ; Biografieforschung ; Kampagne ; Erdgasleitung ; Pipeline ; Trasse ; Großbaustelle ; Arbeiter ; Gemeinschaftsgefühl ; Erinnerung ; Interaktion ; Phänomenologische Soziologie ; Deutschland ; Sowjetunion ; Ostdeutschland
    Abstract: Seit dem Fall der Berliner Mauer vor 25 Jahren interessierten sich eine Vielzahl sozialwissenschaftlicher Studien für erinnernde Erzählungen über den Sozialismus. Im Zuge dessen erlangten Neologismen wie „(N-)Ostalgie“ und erprobte Konzepte wie „Erinnerungsgemeinschaft“ bemerkenswerte Popularität. Dieses Buch plädiert für eine Relativierung des narratologischen Trends in der Erinnerungs- und Biographieforschung zugunsten der Profilierung eines interaktionistischen Konzepts von Erinnerung. Am Beispiel der Gemeinschaft ehemaliger DDR-Pipelinearbeiter in der Sowjetunion zeigt diese Ethnographie, dass die Idee der Eigenkraft der Erinnerung einen unzureichenden Erklärungsansatz bietet, um Vergemeinschaftungsprozesse in Umbruchsituationen zu erklären. Vielmehr stellt die geteilte Vergangenheit für die Pipelinearbeiter sogar ein Problem dar, zu dessen Lösung sie seit den 1990er Jahren unterschiedlichste kommunikative Kompetenzen und Ressourcen aktivierten.
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    DOI: 10.1515/9783110507201
    URN: urn:nbn:de:101:1-2017110127224
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    Chronic Youth : Disability, Sexuality, and U.S. Media Cultures of Rehabilitation (2014)
    New York, NY : New York University Press | Berlin : Walter de Gruyter GmbH
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    ISBN: 9781479806294
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource , 2 black and white illustrations
    Series Statement: NYU Series in Social and Cultural Analysis 4
    DDC: 305.2350973
    Keywords: Electronic books
    Abstract: The teenager has often appeared in culture as an anxious figure,the repository for American dreams and worst nightmares, at once on the brinkof success and imminent failure. Spotlighting the “troubled teen” as a site ofpop cultural, medical, and governmental intervention, Chronic Youthtraces the teenager as a figure through which broad threats to the normativeorder have been negotiated and contained. Examining television, popular novels, science journalism, newmedia, and public policy, Julie Passanante Elman shows how the teenager becamea cultural touchstone for shifting notions of able-bodiedness,heteronormativity, and neoliberalism in the late twentieth century. By the late1970s, media industries as well as policymakers began developing new problem-driven‘edutainment’ prominently featuring narratives of disability—from theimmunocompromised The Boy in the Plastic Bubble to ABC’s After SchoolSpecials and teen sick-lit. Although this conjoining of disabilityand adolescence began as a storytelling convention, disability became much morethan a metaphor as the process of medicalizing adolescence intensified by the1990s, with parenting books containing neuro-scientific warnings about theincomplete and volatile “teen brain.” Undertaking a cultural history of youththat combines disability, queer, feminist, and comparative media studies, Elmanoffers a provocative new account of how American cultural producers,policymakers, and medical professionals have mobilized discourses of disabilityto cast adolescence as a treatable “condition.” By tracing the teen’s unevenpassage from postwar rebel to 21st century patient, Chronic Youth showshow teenagers became a lynchpin for a culture of perpetual rehabilitation andneoliberal governmentality.
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    DOI: 10.18574/nyu/9781479841424.001.0001
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    Differentiating development : beyond an anthropology of critique (2014)
    New York : Berghahn | Berlin : Walter de Gruyter GmbH
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    ISBN: 9780857453044
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (vii, 248 Seiten)
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    Keywords: Angewandte Anthropologie ; Ländliche Entwicklung ; Entwicklungshilfe ; Aufsatzsammlung
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    Children and youth during the gilded age and progressive era (2014)
    New York : New York University Press | Berlin : Walter de Gruyter GmbH
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    ISBN: 9781479804078
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (297 Seiten)
    Series Statement: Children and Youth in America 1
    DDC: 305.230973
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    Keywords: Geschichte 1857-1920 ; Kind ; Jugend ; USA ; Aufsatzsammlung
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    DOI: 10.18574/nyu/9781479894147.001.0001
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    Indigenous African Knowledge Production : Food-Processing Practices among Kenyan Rural Women (2014)
    Toronto : University of Toronto Press | Berlin : Walter de Gruyter GmbH
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    ISBN: 9781442670037
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource , 1 Map
    Edition: [2018]
    DDC: 305.48896391067626
    Abstract: TAmong the rural Embu people of Eastern Kenya, teaching and learning are not purely institutional activities. Instead, knowledge is passed from generation to generation alongside the most mundane activities. In Indigenous African Knowledge Production, Njoki Nathani Wane uses food-processing practices – preparing, preserving, cooking, and serving – as an entry point into the indigenous knowledge of the Embu and the role that rural Embu women play in creating and transmitting it.Using personal narratives collected during several years of field research in Kenya, Wane demonstrates how Embu women use proverbs, fables, and folktales to preserve and communicate their world-view, knowledge, and cultural norms. She shows how this process preserves Indigenous knowledge devalued by the colonial and post-colonial educational systems, as well as the gendered dimension of the transmission process.Wane’s book will be useful not just to those studying development and education in Africa, but also to all those interested in questions of how to preserve and recover local cultural knowledge.
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    DOI: 10.3138/9781442670037
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    Challenging the Monolingual Mindset (2014)
    Blue Ridge Summit, PA : Multilingual Matters | Berlin : Walter de Gruyter GmbH
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    ISBN: 9781783092529
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource
    Series Statement: Multilingual Matters
    DDC: 306.44/6
    Abstract: This volume illustrates the distinctive and interconnected use of languages in increasingly diversified communities, examining a range of multilingual contexts, including post-migration settlement, language policy, education, language contact and intercultural communication. With contributions from researchers in Australia, Europe and Asia, the book discusses the opportunities and tensions that can emerge when societies attempt to manage and understand multilingual communication within and across communities. Reflecting the ideas of Professor Michael Clyne, the volume makes clear how ongoing research across a broad range of topics can assist in challenging the monolingual mindset by bringing to the attention of readers the rich linguistic diversity, as well as linguistic potential, of our communities around the world.
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    DOI: 10.21832/9781783092529
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    Everyone Eats : Understanding Food and Culture (2014)
    New York, NY : New York University Press | Berlin : Walter de Gruyter GmbH
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    ISBN: 9780814785768
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    Abstract: Everyone eats, but rarely do we investigate why we eat what we eat. Why do we love spices, sweets, coffee? How did rice become such a staple food throughout so much of eastern Asia? Everyone Eats examines the social and cultural reasons for our food choices and provides an explanation of the nutritional reasons for why humans eat what they do, resulting in a unique cultural and biological approach to the topic. E. N. Anderson explains the economics of food in the globalization era; food’s relationship to religion, medicine, and ethnicity; and offers suggestions on how to end hunger, starvation, and malnutrition.This thoroughly updated Second Edition incorporates the latest food scholarship, most notably recognizing the impact of sustainable eating advocacy and the state of food security in the world today. Anderson also brings more insight than ever before into the historical and scientific underpinnings of our food customs, fleshing this out with fifteen new and original photographs from his own extensive fieldwork.A perennial classic in the anthropology of food, Everyone Eats feeds our need to understand human ecology by explaining the ways that cultures and political systems structure the edible environment.
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    Sensational Flesh : Race, Power, and Masochism (2014)
    New York, NY : New York University Press | Berlin : Walter de Gruyter GmbH
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    ISBN: 9781479891405
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    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource , 2 black and white illustrations
    Series Statement: Sexual Cultures 43
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    Abstract: In everyday language, masochism is usually understood as the desire to abdicate control in exchange for sensation—pleasure, pain, or a combination thereof. Yet at its core, masochism is a site where power, bodies, and society come together. Sensational Flesh uses masochism as a lens to examine how power structures race, gender, and embodiment in different contexts. Drawing on rich and varied sources—from 19th century sexology, psychoanalysis, and critical theory to literary texts and performance art—Amber Jamilla Musser employs masochism as a powerful diagnostic tool for probing relationships between power and subjectivity. Engaging with a range of debates about lesbian S&M, racialization, femininity, and disability, as well as key texts such as Sacher-Masoch’s Venus in Furs, Pauline Réage’s The Story of O, and Michel Foucault's History of Sexuality, Musser renders legible the complex ways that masochism has been taken up by queer, feminist, and critical race theories. Furthering queer theory’s investment in affect and materiality, she proposes “sensation” as an analytical tool for illustrating what it feels like to be embedded in structures of domination such as patriarchy, colonialism, and racism and what it means to embody femininity, blackness, and pain. Sensational Flesh is ultimately about the ways in which difference is made material through race, gender, and sexuality and how that materiality is experienced.
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    DOI: 10.18574/nyu/9781479891818.001.0001
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    Fat Gay Men : Girth, Mirth, and the Politics of Stigma (2014)
    New York, NY : New York University Press | Berlin : Walter de Gruyter GmbH
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    ISBN: 9780814723906
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource
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    Abstract: To be fat in a thin-obsessed gay culturecan be difficult. Despite affectionate in-group monikers for big gay men–chubs,bears, cubs–the anti-fat stigma that persists in American culture at largestill haunts these individuals who often exist at the margins of gaycommunities. In Fat Gay Men, JasonWhitesel delves into the world of Girth & Mirth, a nationally known socialclub dedicated to big gay men, illuminating the ways in which these men formidentities and community in the face of adversity. In existence for over fortyyears, the club has long been a refuge and ‘safe space’ for such men. Both a partial insider as a gay man and anoutsider to Girth & Mirth, Whitesel offers an insider’s critique of the gaymovement, questioning whether the social consequences of the failure to beheight-weight proportionate should be so extreme in the gay community. This book documents performances at club events and examines howparticipants use allusion and campy-queer behavior to reconfigure and reclaimtheir sullied body images, focusing on the numerous tensions of marginalizationand dignity that big gay men experience and how they negotiate these tensionsvia their membership to a size-positive group. Based on ethnographic interviewsand in-depth field notes from more than 100 events at bar nights, caféklatches, restaurants, potlucks, holiday bashes, pool parties, movie nights,and weekend retreats, the book explores the woundedness that comes from beingrelegated to an inferior position in gay hierarchies, and yet celebrates howsome gay men can reposition the shame of fat stigma through carnival, camp, andplay. A compelling and rich narrative, FatGay Men provides a rare glimpse into an unexplored dimension of weight andbody image in American culture.
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    DOI: 10.18574/nyu/9780814723906.001.0001
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    Gender and Ageing : Southeast Asian Perspectives (2014)
    Singapore : ISEAS Publishing | Berlin : Walter de Gruyter GmbH
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    ISBN: 9789814517980
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource
    DDC: 305.260959
    Keywords: Aufsatzsammlung ; Konferenzschrift
    Abstract: This book examines common themes related to gender and ageing in countries in Southeast Asia. Derived from quantitative or qualitative methods of data collection and analysis, the chapters reveal how ageing has become tempered by globalization, cultural values, family structures, women’s emancipation and empowerment, social networks, government policies, and religion. The chapters are concerned primarily with the following questions related to gender and ageing: (a) how do women and men experience old age? (b) do women and men have different means of coping financially and socially in their old age? (c) does having engaged in wage work for longer periods of time serve as an advantage to older men in contrast to older women? (d) does a woman’s primary role as caregiver serve to disadvantage her in old age? (e) what kinds of identities have older women and men constructed for themselves? (f) do women and men prepare for ageing differently and has this preparation been mediated by educational levels? (g) does having a higher level of education make a difference to how one experiences ageing? (h) how does class shape the way women and men cope in old age? and (i) what does it mean to be a ‘single’ older person who has either lost a spouse through death or has never been married? Because the book employs a cross-country analysis, readers gain an understanding of contemporary emergent trends not only in each of the countries but also in Southeast Asia as a whole. Wherever relevant, some chapters have also identified similarities in trends on gender and ageing between countries in the Western hemisphere and those in Southeast Asia to highlight broader patterns across the world. "The share of the elderly in Southeast Asia’s population is steadily rising, and it is increasingly important to understand and plan for the implications of this trend. While in some aspects, the situation of older women and men in the region is similar, their life experiences of education, marriage, child-raising, work, and social networks differ, and this makes for different issues as they grow older. Moreover, a much higher proportion of elderly women than men face old age without a spouse. This book makes a major contribution to understanding the issues arising from ageing trends in Southeast Asia. Individual chapters in the book deal authoritatively with almost every country in the region, and are written by noted experts on the subject. The book will be an essential reading for anyone wishing to understand ageing issues in Southeast Asia, particularly from the perspective of gender." - Gavin Jones, Director, JY Pillay Comparative Asia Research Centre, National University of Singapore...
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    DOI: 10.1355/9789814517980
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    The Rural Midwest Since World War II (2014)
    Ithaca, NY : Cornell University Press | Berlin : Walter de Gruyter GmbH
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    ISBN: 9781501751318
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (335 p.) , 22 halftones, 5 maps
    Edition: 2014
    DDC: 306.0977
    Abstract: J.L. Anderson seeks to change the belief that the Midwest lacks the kind of geographic coherence, historical issues, and cultural touchstones that have informed regional identity in the American South, West, and Northeast. The goal of this illuminating volume is to demonstrate uniqueness in a region that has always been amorphous and is increasingly so. Midwesterners are a dynamic people who shaped the physical and social landscapes of the great midsection of the nation, and they are presented as such in this volume that offers a general yet informed overview of the region after World War II.The contributors—most of whom are Midwesterners by birth or residence—seek to better understand a particular piece of rural America, a place too often caricatured, misunderstood, and ignored. However, the rural landscape has experienced agricultural diversity and major shifts in land use. Farmers in the region have successfully raised new commodities from dairy and cherries to mint and sugar beets. The region has also been a place where community leaders fought to improve their economic and social well-being, women redefined their roles on the farm, and minorities asserted their own version of the American Dream.The rural Midwest is a regional melting pot, and contributors to this volume do not set out to sing its praises or, by contrast, assume the position of Midwestern modesty and self-deprecation. The essays herein rewrite the narrative of rural decline and crisis, and show through solid research and impeccable scholarship that rural Midwesterners have confronted and created challenges uniquely their own.
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    DOI: 10.7591/9781501751318
    URL: https://doi.org/10.7591/9781501751318
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    From Apartheid to Democracy : Deliberating Truth and Reconciliation in South Africa (2014)
    University Park, PA : Penn State University Press | Berlin : Walter de Gruyter GmbH
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    ISBN: 9780271065724
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (176 p.) , 5 illustrations
    Edition: 2021
    Series Statement: Rhetoric and Democratic Deliberation 11
    DDC: 305.800968
    Keywords: Apartheid ; Deliberative democracy ; Post-apartheid era ; Reconciliation Social aspects ; Rhetoric ; LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Rhetoric
    Abstract: South Africa’s Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC) hearings can be considered one of the most significant rhetorical events of the late twentieth century. The TRC called language into action, tasking it with promoting understanding among a divided people and facilitating the construction of South Africa’s new democracy. Other books on the TRC and deliberative rhetoric in contemporary South Africa emphasize the achievement of reconciliation during and in the immediate aftermath of the transition from apartheid. From Apartheid to Democracy, in contrast, considers the varied, complex, and enduring effects of the Commission’s rhetorical wager. It is the first book-length study to analyze the TRC through such a lens. Katherine Elizabeth Mack focuses on the dissension and negotiations over difference provoked by the Commission’s process, especially its public airing of victims’ and perpetrators’ truths. She tracks agonistic deliberation (evidenced in the TRC’s public hearings) into works of fiction and photography that extend and challenge the Commission’s assumptions about truth, healing, and reconciliation. Ultimately, Mack demonstrates that while the TRC may not have achieved all of its political goals, its very existence generated valuable deliberation within and beyond its official process.
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    DOI: 10.1515/9780271065724
    URL: https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9780271065724
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    Etnógrafos coloniales : Alteridad y escritura en la Conquista de América (siglo XVI) (2014)
    Frankfurt am Main : Vervuert Verlagsgesellschaft | Berlin : Walter de Gruyter GmbH
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    ISBN: 9783954872923
    Language: Spanish
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource
    Series Statement: Textos y Estudios Coloniales y de la Independencia 23
    Abstract: Reflexiona sobre los dispositivos de saber y las relaciones de dominación simbólica y material que se ejercieron mediante el discurso etnográfico sobre diversas etnias indígenas de América en el Caribe y en Nueva España principalmente.
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    DOI: 10.31819/9783954872923
    URL: https://doi.org/10.31819/9783954872923
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    Stepmother Russia, Foster Mother America : Identity Transitions in the New Odessa Jewish Commune, 1881-1891 & Recollections of a Communist (2014)
    Boston, MA : Academic Studies Press | Berlin : Walter de Gruyter GmbH
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    ISBN: 9781618113825
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (215 p.)
    Series Statement: Borderlines: Russian and East European-Jewish Studies
    DDC: 305.6960899171073
    RVK:
    NY 4780
    RVK:
    NY 4900
    RVK:
    MR 6800
    Keywords: Geschichte 1881-1891 ; Juden ; Kommune ; Auswanderung ; Einwanderung ; Kulturelle Identität ; Odessa ; Dubno ; Oregon ; Erlebnisbericht
    Abstract: In the late nineteenth century, a group of radical Jewish youths from Odessa attempted to create an agricultural commune on the Oregon frontier, and in so doing developed from assimilated revolutionaries to American Jews. Theodore Friedgut relates the story of these youths and their creation, with special notice paid to the human encounters within the commune, the members’ encounters with America in acquiring land and equipment—and, importantly, their encounters with their neighbors, themselves immigrant farmers on the American frontier. Among the volume’s central sources is the memoir of Israel Mandelkern, which is here published for the first time. This study addresses hitherto neglected aspects of Jewish life in Russia and of the life of one of the more than a hundred Jewish agricultural colonies, and helps us understand the factors that influenced the young colony members in their transition toward becoming Americans. This is a microcosm of the experience of multitudes of immigrants.
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    DOI: 10.1515/9781618113825
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    Tragic Orphans : Indians in Malaysia (2014)
    Singapore : ISEAS Publishing | Berlin : Walter de Gruyter GmbH
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    ISBN: 9789814620123
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource
    DDC: 305.5
    Abstract: In 1938, noting that the bulk of the Indian population formed a “landless proletariat” and despairing of the ability of the factionalized Indian community to unite in pursuit of common objectives, activist K.A. Neelakanda Ayer forecast that the fate of Indians in Malaya would be to become “Tragic orphans – of whom India has forgotten and Malaya looks down upon with contempt”. Ayer’s words continue to resonate; as a minority group in a nation dominated politically by colonially derived narratives of “race” and ethnicity and riven by the imperatives of religion, the general trajectory of the economically and politically impotent Indian community has been one of increasing irrelevance. This book explores the history of the modern Indian presence in Malaysia, and traces the vital role played by the Indian community in the construction of contemporary Malaysia. In this comprehensive new study, Carl Vadivella Belle offers fresh insights on the Indian experience spanning the period from the colonial recruitment of Indian labour to the post-Merdeka political, economic and social marginalization of Indians. While recent Indian challenges to the political status quo — a regime described as that of “benign neglect” — promoted Indian hopes of reform, change and uplift, the author concludes that the dictates of political discourse permeated by the ideologies of communalism offer limited prospects for meaningful change.
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    DOI: 10.1355/9789814620123
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    Children in the Ancient Near Eastern Household (2014)
    University Park, PA : Penn State University Press | Berlin : Walter de Gruyter GmbH
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    ISBN: 9781575068954
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (392 p.)
    Edition: 2021
    Series Statement: Explorations in Ancient Near Eastern Civilizations 3
    DDC: 305.2309394
    Keywords: Children History To 1500 ; Children Social conditions ; Household archaeology ; Households History To 1500 ; Middle East Antiquities ; Middle East History To 622 ; Middle East Social conditions ; Social archaeology ; HISTORY / Ancient / General
    Abstract: Children were an important part of the ancient Near Eastern household. This idea seems straightforward, but it can be understood in many ways. On a basic level, children are necessary for the perpetuation of a household. On a deeper level, the definitions of child and member of the household are far from categorical. This book begins to explore the multiple definitions of child and the way the child fits within a household. It examines what membership in the household looks like for children and what factors contribute to it. A study addressing what a child is and how a child’s gender and social status affect her place in the household is vital to a proper understanding of the ancient Near Eastern household.Despite their importance, children have long been marginalized in discussions of ancient societies. Only recently has this trend begun to change within biblical and ancient Near Eastern scholarship. A recent wave of studies, especially in relation to the Hebrew Bible, has started to address children in their own right. In light of the current state of scholarship on children, the purpose of this book is threefold. First, Garroway continues to fill out the picture of the child in the ancient Near East by compiling child-centric texts and archaeological realia. In analyzing these materials, she surveys the relationship between children and ancient Near Eastern society by examining the extent to which structuring forces in a community, such as social status and gender, contribute to the process of a child’s becoming a member of his household and society. Finally, this information provides a base for future research, for example, a cross-cultural study of children in the ancient Near East in Classical Antiquity.
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    DOI: 10.1515/9781575068954
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    Remembering Communism : Private and Public Recollections of Lived Experience in Southeast Europe (2014)
    Budapest : Central European University Press | Berlin : Walter de Gruyter GmbH
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    ISBN: 9789633860328
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (640 p.)
    Edition: 2022
    DDC: 306.0947
    Abstract: Remembering Communism examines the formation and transformation of the memory of communism in the post-communist period. The majority of the articles focus on memory practices in the post-Stalinist era in Bulgaria and Romania, with occasional references to the cases of Poland and the GDR. Based on an interdisciplinary approach, including history, anthropology, cultural studies and sociology, the volume examines the mechanisms and processes that influence, determine and mint the private and public memory of communism in the post-1989 era. The common denominator to all essays is the emphasis on the process of remembering in the present, and the modalities by means of which the present perspective shapes processes of remembering, including practices of commemoration and representation of the past. The volume deals with eight major thematic blocks revisiting specific practices in communism such as popular culture and everyday life, childhood, labor, the secret police, and the perception of "the system".
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    We the Cosmopolitans : Moral and Existential Conditions of Being Human (2014)
    Berlin : Walter de Gruyter GmbH
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    ISBN: 9781782382775
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (194 p.)
    DDC: 306
    Abstract: The provocative title of this book is deliberately and challengingly universalist, matching the theoretically experimental essays, where contributors try different ideas to answer distinct concerns regarding cosmopolitanism. Leading anthropologists explore what cosmopolitanism means in the context of everyday life, variously viewing it as an aspect of kindness and empathy, as tolerance, hospitality and openness, and as a defining feature of pan-human individuality. The chapters thus advance an existential critique of abstract globalization discourse. The book enriches interdisciplinary debates about hitherto neglected aspects of contemporary cosmopolitanism as a political and moral project, examining the form of its lived effects and offering new ideas and case studies to work with.
    DOI: 10.1515/9781782382775
    URL: https://doi.org/10.1515/9781782382775
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    A Revolution of Perception? : Consequences and Echoes of 1968 (2014)
    Berlin : Walter de Gruyter GmbH
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    ISBN: 9781782383802
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (216 p.)
    Series Statement: New German Historical Perspectives 5
    DDC: 303.48 409046
    RVK:
    NQ 5830
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    NQ 6085
    Keywords: Geschichte 1968 ; Studentenbewegung ; Aufsatzsammlung
    Abstract: The year "1968" marked the climax of protests that simultaneously captured most industrialized Western countries. The protesters challenged the institutions of Western democracies, confronting powerful, established parties and groups with an opposing force and public presence that negated tra­ditional structures of institutional authority and criticized the basic assump­tions of the post-war order. Exploring the effects the protest movement of 1968 had on the political, social, and symbolic order of the societies they called into question, this volume focuses on the consequences and echoes of 1968 from different perspectives, including history, sociology, and linguistics.
    DOI: 10.1515/9781782383802
    URL: https://doi.org/10.1515/9781782383802
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    Beyond Alterity : German Encounters with Modern East Asia (2014)
    Berlin : Walter de Gruyter GmbH
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    ISBN: 9781782383611
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (316 p.)
    Series Statement: Spektrum: Publications of the German Studies Association 7
    DDC: 303.48/24305
    Keywords: Geschichte 1920-2013 ; Geschichte 1900-2000 ; Massenkultur ; Chinabild ; Japanbild ; Kulturkontakt ; Globalisierung ; Internationale Politik ; Geistesleben ; Deutschland ; Japan ; China ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Aufsatzsammlung
    Abstract: With the economic and political rise of East Asia in the second half of the twentieth century, many Western countries have re-evaluated their links to their Eastern counterparts. Thus, in recent years, Asian German Studies has emerged as a promising branch within interdisciplinary German Studies. This collection of essays examines German-language cultural production pertaining to modern China and Japan, and explicitly challenges orientalist notions by proposing a conception of East and West not as opposites, but as complementary elements of global culture, thereby urging a move beyond national paradigms in cultural studies. Essays focus on the mid-century German-Japanese alliance, Chinese-German Leftist collaborations, global capitalism, travel, identity, and cultural hybridity. The authors include historians and scholars of film and literature, and employ a wide array of approaches from postcolonial, globalization, media, and gender studies. The collection sheds new light on a complex and ambivalentset of international relationships, while also testifying to the potential of Asian German Studies.
    DOI: 10.1515/9781782383611
    URL: https://doi.org/10.1515/9781782383611?locatt=mode:legacy
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    Americans in Tuscany : Charity, Compassion, and Belonging (2014)
    Berlin : Walter de Gruyter GmbH
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    ISBN: 9781782383703
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (230 p.)
    Series Statement: New Directions in Anthropology 36
    DDC: 305.48/8130455
    Abstract: Since the time of the Grand Tour, the Italian region of Tuscany has sustained a highly visible American and Anglo migrant community. Today American women continue to migrate there, many in order to marry Italian men. Confronted with experiences of social exclusion, unfamiliar family relations, and new cultural terrain, many women struggle to build local lives. In the first ethnographic monograph of Americans in Italy, Catherine Trundle argues that charity and philanthropy are the central means by which many American women negotiate a sense of migrant belonging in Italy. This book traces women's daily acts of charity as they gave food to the poor, fundraised among the wealthy, monitored untrustworthy recipients, assessed the needy, and reflected on the emotional work that charity required. In exploring the often-ignored role of charitable action in migrant community formation, Trundle contributes to anthropological theories of gift giving, compassion, and reflexivity.
    DOI: 10.1515/9781782383703
    URL: https://doi.org/10.1515/9781782383703
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    Up, Down, and Sideways : Anthropologists Trace the Pathways of Power (2014)
    Berlin : Walter de Gruyter GmbH
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    ISBN: 9781782384021
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (284 p.)
    Series Statement: Studies in Public and Applied Anthropology 7
    DDC: 306.2
    Abstract: Using a "vertical slice" approach, anthropologists critically analyze the relationship between undemocratic uses and abuses of power and the survival of the human species. The contributors scrutinize modern institutions in a variety of regions-from Russia and Mexico to South Korea and the U.S. Up, Down, and Sideways is an ethnographic examination of such phenomena as debtculture, global financial crises, food insecurity, indigenous land and resource appropriation, the mismanagement of health care, andcorporate surrogacy within family life. With a preface by Laura Nader, this isessential reading for anyone seeking solid theories and concrete methods to inform activist scholarship.
    DOI: 10.1515/9781782384021
    URL: https://doi.org/10.1515/9781782384021
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    Bureaucracy and Development : Reflections from the Indonesian Water Sector (2014)
    Singapore : ISEAS Publishing | Berlin : Walter de Gruyter GmbH
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    ISBN: 9789814459716
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource
    DDC: 303.6909174927
    Abstract: The fall of the New Order government in 1998 and the political reform that followed posed substantial challenges for Indonesia's bureaucracy to continue fulfilling its mandate. This book analyses the process of bureaucratic reform in the irrigation sector. Using Irrigation Management Transfer policy as the entry point for analysis, it documents and analyses the irrigation bureaucracy’s ability to sustain its power and prominence in the sector’s development, amidst and against national and international pressures for reform. The book argues that bureaucratic reform in the irrigation sector, rather than attempting to change the bureaucracy's functioning in the image of national and global (good) governance perspectives and priorities, should instead focus on linking the irrigation bureaucracy's everyday practice more effectively with farmers’ needs and aspirations. Reform efforts of the past decades show that Indonesia’s irrigation sector development cannot be redirected without the irrigation bureaucracy’s knowledge, experience and cooperation, and without strengthening its downward accountability to farmer-irrigators.
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    DOI: 10.1355/9789814459716
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    Anti-modernism : Radical Revisions of Collective Identity (2014)
    Budapest : Central European University Press | Berlin : Walter de Gruyter GmbH
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    ISBN: 9789633860953
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (452 p.)
    Edition: 2022
    Series Statement: Discourses of Collective Identity in Central and Southeast Europe (1770â€"1945)
    DDC: 305.800943
    Abstract: The last volume of the Discourses of Collective Identity in Central and Southeast Europe 1770-1945 series presents 46 texts under the heading of "antimodernism". In a dynamic relationship with modernism, from the 1880s to the 1940s, and especially during the interwar period, the antimodernist political discourse in the region offered complex ideological constructions of national identification. These texts rejected the linear vision of progress and instead offered alternative models of temporality, such as the cyclical one as well as various narratives of decline. This shift was closely connected to the rejection of liberal democratic institutionalism, and the preference for organicist models of social existence, emphasizing the role of the elites (and charismatic leaders) shaping the whole body politic. Along these lines, antimodernist authors also formulated alternative visions of symbolic geography: rejecting the symbolic hierarchies that focused on the normativity of Western European models, they stressed the cultural and political autarchy of their own national community, which in some cases was also coupled with the reevaluation of the Orient. At the same time, this antimodernist turn should not be confused with rightwing radicalism-in fact, the dialogue with the modernist tradition was often very subtle and the anthology also contains texts which offered a criticism of 'modern' totalitarianism in an antimodernist key.
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    With Light Steam : A Personal Journey through the Russian Baths (2014)
    Ithaca, NY : Cornell University Press | Berlin : Walter de Gruyter GmbH
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    ISBN: 9781501758133
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (224 p.) , 31 illustrations
    Edition: 2020
    Series Statement: NIU Series in Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies
    DDC: 725/.730947
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    DOI: 10.1515/9781501758133
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    La famille dans le Proche-Orient ancien: réalités, symbolismes et images : Proceedings of the 55e Rencontre Assyriologique Internationale, Paris (2014)
    University Park, PA : Penn State University Press | Berlin : Walter de Gruyter GmbH
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    ISBN: 9781575068886
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (808 p.)
    Edition: 2021
    Series Statement: Rencontre Assyriologique Internationale
    DDC: 306.850935
    Keywords: Families Congresses History To 1500 ; Social archaeology Congresses ; HISTORY / Ancient / General
    Abstract: In July, 2009, the International Association for Assyriology met in Paris, France, for 5 days to deliver and listen to papers on the theme “La famille dans le Proche-Orient.” This volume, the proceedings of the conference, contains 53 of the papers read at the 55th annual Rencontre, including primarily papers directly connected with the theme and some on areas of related interest. The papers covered every period of Mesopotamian history, from the third millennium through the end of the first millennium B.C.E. The photo on the back cover shows only a representative portion of the attendees, who were warmly hosted by faculty and students from the Collège de France.
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    DOI: 10.1515/9781575068886
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    Belonging in Oceania : Movement, Place-Making and Multiple Identifications (2014)
    Berlin : Walter de Gruyter GmbH
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    ISBN: 9781782384168
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (232 p.)
    Series Statement: Pacific Perspectives: Studies of the European Society for Oceanists 3
    DDC: 302.3
    RVK:
    LB 48690
    Keywords: Ethnologie ; Ethnische Identität ; Gruppe ; Interaktion ; Eigentum ; Räumliche Identität ; Ozeanien ; Aufsatzsammlung
    Abstract: Ethnographic case studies explore what it means to "belong" in Oceania, as contributors consider ongoing formations of place, self and community in connection with travelling, internal and international migration. The chapters apply the multi-dimensional concepts of movement, place-making and cultural identifications to explain contemporary life in Oceanic societies. The volume closes by suggesting that constructions of multiple belongings-and, with these, the relevant forms of mobility, place-making and identifications-are being recontextualized and modified by emerging discourses of climate change and sea-level rise.  ...
    DOI: 10.1515/9781782384168
    URL: https://doi.org/10.1515/9781782384168
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    A World of Populations : Transnational Perspectives on Demography in the Twentieth Century (2014)
    Berlin : Walter de Gruyter GmbH
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    ISBN: 9781782384281
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (264 p.)
    DDC: 304.60904
    RVK:
    ND 8700
    Keywords: Geschichte 1900-2000 ; Demographie ; Übervölkerung ; Bevölkerungspolitik ; Familienplanung
    Abstract: Demographic study and the idea of a "population" was developed and modified over the course of the twentieth century, mirroring the political, social, and cultural situations and aspirations of different societies. This growing field adapted itself to specific policy concerns and was therefore never apolitical, despite the protestations of practitioners that demography was "natural." Demographics were transformed into public policies that shaped family planning, population growth, medical practice, and environmental conservation. While covering a variety of regions and time periods, the essays in this book share an interest in the transnational dynamics of emerging demographic discourses and practices. Together, they present a global picture of the history of demographic knowledge.
    DOI: 10.1515/9781782384281
    URL: https://doi.org/10.1515/9781782384281
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    Globalized Fatherhood (2014)
    Berlin : Walter de Gruyter GmbH
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    ISBN: 9781782384380
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (430 p.)
    Series Statement: Fertility, Reproduction and Sexuality: Social and Cultural Perspectives 27
    DDC: 306.8742
    Abstract: Using an entirely new conceptual vocabulary through which to understand men's experiences and expectations at the dawn of the twenty-first century, this path-breaking volume focuses on fatherhood around the globe, including transformations in fathering, fatherhood, and family life. It includes new work by anthropologists, sociologists, and cultural geographers, working in settings from Peru to India to Vietnam. Each chapter suggests that men are responding to globalization as fathers in creative and unprecedented ways, not only in the West, but also in numerous global locations.
    DOI: 10.1515/9781782384380
    URL: https://doi.org/10.1515/9781782384380
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    Anthropology and Nostalgia (2014)
    Berlin : Walter de Gruyter GmbH
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    ISBN: 9781782384540
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (244 p.)
    DDC: 302/.1
    Abstract: Nostalgia is intimately connected to the history of the social sciences in general and anthropology in particular, though finely grained ethnographies of nostalgia and loss are still scarce. Today, anthropologists have realized that nostalgia constitutes a fascinating object of study for exploring contemporary issues of the formation of identity in politics and history. Contributors to this volume consider the fabric of nostalgia in the fields of heritage and tourism, exile and diasporas, postcolonialism and postsocialism, business and economic exchange, social, ecological and religious movements, and nation building. They contribute to a better understanding of how individuals and groups commemorate their pasts, and how nostalgia plays a role in the process of remembering.
    DOI: 10.1515/9781782384540
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    Dignity for the Voiceless : Willem Assies's Anthropological Work in Context (2014)
    Berlin : Walter de Gruyter GmbH
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    ISBN: 9781782382935
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (348 p.)
    Series Statement: CEDLA Latin America Studies 103
    DDC: 306.098
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    Keywords: Assies, Willem ; Politische Anthropologie ; Soziale Bewegung ; Lateinamerika ; Aufsatzsammlung
    Abstract: Willem Assies died in 2010 at the age of 55. The various stages of his career as a political anthropologist of Latin American illustrate how astute a researcher he was. He had a keen eye for the contradictions he observed during his fieldwork but also enjoyed theoretical debate. A distrust of power led him not only to attempt to understand "people without voice" but to work alongside them so they could discover and find their own voice. Willem Assies explored the messy, often untidy daily lives of people, with their inconsistencies, irrationalities, and passions, but also with their hopes, sense of beauty, solidarity, and quest for dignity. This collection brings together some of Willem Assies's best, most fascinating, and still highly relevant writings.
    DOI: 10.1515/9781782382935
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    Variations on Uzbek Identity : Strategic Choices, Cognitive Schemas and Political Constraints in Identification Processes (2014)
    Berlin : Walter de Gruyter GmbH
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    ISBN: 9781782382393
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (288 p.)
    Series Statement: Integration and Conflict Studies 7
    DDC: 305.894 325
    Abstract: Throughout its history the concept of "Uzbekness," or more generally of a Turkic-speaking sedentary population, has continuously attracted members of other groups to join, as being Uzbek promises opportunities to enlarge ones social network. Accession is comparatively easy, as Uzbekness is grounded in a cultural model of territoriality, rather than genealogy, as the basis for social attachments. It acknowledges regional variation and the possibility of membership by voluntary decision. Therefore, the boundaries of being Uzbek vary almost by definition, incorporating elements of local languages, cultural patterns and social organization. This book combines an historical analysis with thorough ethnographic field research, looking at differences in the conceptualization of group boundaries and the social practices they entail. It does so by analysing decision-making processes by Uzbeks on the individual as well as cognitive level and the political configurations that surround them.
    DOI: 10.1515/9781782382393
    URL: https://doi.org/10.1515/9781782382393
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    Sounds of Modern History : Auditory Cultures in 19th- and 20th-Century Europe (2014)
    Berlin : Walter de Gruyter GmbH
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    ISBN: 9781782384229
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (352 p.)
    DDC: 306.09409/034#23
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    NK 4950
    Keywords: Klang ; Lärm ; Schallaufzeichnung ; Kultur ; Europa
    Abstract: Long ignored by scholars in the humanities, sound has just begun to take its place as an important object of study in the last few years. Since the late 19th century, there has been a paradigmatic shift in auditory cultures and practices in European societies. This change was brought about by modern phenomena such as urbanization, industrialization and mechanization, the rise of modern sciences, and of course the emergence of new sound recording and transmission media. This book contributes to our understanding of modern European history through the lens of sound by examining diverse subjects such as performed and recorded music, auditory technologies like the telephone and stethoscope, and the ambient noise of the city.
    DOI: 10.1515/9781782384229
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    Anthropology Now and Next : Essays in Honor of Ulf Hannerz (2014)
    Berlin : Walter de Gruyter GmbH
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    ISBN: 9781782384502
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (324 p.)
    DDC: 301.01
    Abstract: The scholarship of Ulf Hannerz is characterized by its extraordinary breadth and visionary nature. He has contributed to the understanding of urban life and transnational networks, and the role of media, paradoxes of identity and new forms of community, suggesting to see culture in terms of flows rather than as bounded entities. Contributions honor Hannerz' legacy by addressing theoretical, epistemological, ethical and methodological challenges facing anthropological inquiry on topics from cultural diversity policies in Europe to transnational networks in Yemen, and from pottery and literature to multinational corporations.
    DOI: 10.1515/9781782384502
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    Sexual Futures, Queer Gestures, and Other Latina Longings (2014)
    New York, NY : New York University Press | Berlin : Walter de Gruyter GmbH
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    ISBN: 9780814762714
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource , 12 black and white illustrations
    Series Statement: Sexual Cultures 18
    DDC: 306.7601
    Abstract: Winner of the Alan Bray Memorial Book Prize presented by the GL/Q Caucus of the Modern Language AssociationFinalist for the 2015 LGBT Studies Award presented by the Lambda Literary FoundationSexual Futures, Queer Gestures and Other Latina Longings proposes a theory of sexual politics that works in the interstices between radical queer desires and the urgency of transforming public policy, between utopian longings and everyday failures. Considering the ways in which bodily movement is assigned cultural meaning, Juana María Rodríguez takes the stereotypes of the hyperbolically gestural queer Latina femme body as a starting point from which to discuss how gestures and forms of embodiment inform sexual pleasures and practices in the social realm.Centered on the sexuality of racialized queer female subjects, the book’s varied archive—which includes burlesque border crossings, daddy play, pornography, sodomy laws, and sovereignty claims—seeks to bring to the fore alternative sexual practices and machinations that exist outside the sightlines of mainstream cosmopolitan gay male culture. Situating articulations of sexual subjectivity between the interpretive poles of law and performance, Rodríguez argues that forms of agency continually mediate among these various structures of legibility—the rigid confines of the law and the imaginative possibilities of the performative. She reads the strategies of Puerto Rican activists working toward self-determination alongside sexual performances on stage, in commercial pornography, in multi-media installations, on the dance floor, and in the bedroom. Rodríguez examines not only how projections of racialized sex erupt onto various discursive mediums but also how the confluence of racial and gendered anxieties seeps into the gestures and utterances of sexual acts, kinship structures, and activist practices.Ultimately, Sexual Futures, Queer Gestures, and Other Latina Longings reveals ­—in lyrical style and explicit detail­—how sex has been deployed in contemporary queer communities in order to radically reconceptualize sexual politics.
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    DOI: 10.18574/nyu/9780814762714.001.0001
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    The Harbour of all this Sea and Realm : Crusader to Venetian Famagusta (2014)
    Budapest : Central European University Press | Berlin : Walter de Gruyter GmbH
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    ISBN: 9789633860649
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (272 p.)
    Edition: 2022
    DDC: 306.09
    Abstract: The Harbour of All This Sea and Realm offers an overview of the Lusignan, Genoese and Venetian history of the main port city of Cyprus, a Mediterranean crossroads. The essays contribute to the understanding of Famagusta's social and administrative structure, as well as the influences on its architectural, artisan, and art historical heritage from the thirteenth to sixteenth centuries. We read of crusader bishops from central France, metalworkers from Asia Minor, mercenaries from Genoa, refugees from Acre, and traders from Venice. The themes of the city's diasporas and cultural hybridity permeate and unify the essays in this collaborative effort. Some of the studies use archival sources to reconstruct the early stages of appearances of various buildings. Such research is of vital importance, given the threat to Famagusta's medieval and early modern heritage by its use as a military base since 1974.
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    Aztlán and Arcadia : Religion, Ethnicity, and the Creation of Place (2014)
    New York, NY : New York University Press | Berlin : Walter de Gruyter GmbH
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    ISBN: 9781479854905
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource
    DDC: 305.80097949
    Abstract: In thewake of the Mexican-American War, competing narratives of religious conquestand re-conquest were employed by Anglo American and ethnic Mexican Californiansto make sense of their place in North America. These “invented traditions” hada profound impact on North American religious and ethnic relations, serving tobring elements of Catholic history within the Protestant fold of the UnitedStates’ national history as well as playing an integral role in the emergenceof the early Chicano/a movement. Many Protestant AngloAmericans understood their settlement in the far Southwest as following in thefootsteps of the colonial project begun by Catholic Spanish missionaries. Incontrast, Californios—Mexican-Americans and Chicana/os—stresseddeep connections to a pre-Columbian past over to their own Spanish heritage.Thus, as Anglo Americans fashioned themselves as the spiritual heirs to theSpanish frontier, many ethnic Mexicans came to see themselves as the spiritualheirs to a southwestern Aztec homeland.
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    DOI: 10.18574/nyu/9780814740606.001.0001
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    The Long 1890s in Egypt : Colonial Quiescence, Subterranean Resistance (2014)
    Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press | Berlin : Walter de Gruyter GmbH
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    ISBN: 9780748670130
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (448 p.)
    Edition: 2022
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    LB 53495
    Keywords: Kolonialismus ; Ägypten ; Großbritannien
    Abstract: Explores a vital and previously understudied moment in Egypt's modern historyEgypt just before political eruption! Turns of the century in Africa's northeastern corner have been critical moments, ushering in overt popular activism in the hope of radical political redirection - as this volume's focus on Egypt's 19th-century fin-de-siècle demonstrates.The end of the 19th century in Egypt witnessed crisscrossing and conflicting political currents as well as fluctuating economic, geopolitical, social conditions, demographic conditions and cultural processes. Like Egypt's 20th-century fin-de-siècle, much of this ferment was a prelude to the more visible and politically eruptive events of the next decades, when Egypt's popular resistance burst onto the international scene. But its subterranean cast was no less dynamic for that. Key FeaturesA wide ranging and theoretically coherent study of a period that was crucial to the formation of modern Egypt13 case studies challenge the prevailing view that the 1890s in Egypt was a time of withdrawal and quiescenceEngages with questions of political engagement, shifting gender roles, geographical ambiguities, the emergence of new media, community identity formation and changing artistic formations...
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    Fishing in Contested Waters : Place & Community in Burnt Church/Esgenoopetitj (2014)
    Toronto : University of Toronto Press | Berlin : Walter de Gruyter GmbH
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    ISBN: 9781442689930
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (224 p.) , 3 maps
    Edition: 2022
    DDC: 304.208997/343071521
    Abstract: After the Supreme Court of Canada's 1999 Marshall decision recognized Mi'kmaw fishers' treaty right to fish, the fishers entered the inshore lobster fishery across Atlantic Canada. At Burnt Church/Esgenoôpetitj, New Brunswick, the Mi'kmaw fishery provoked violent confrontations with neighbours and the Canadian government. Over the next two years, boats, cottages, and a sacred grove were burned, people were shot at and beaten, boats rammed and sunk, roads barricaded, and the local wharf occupied.Based on 12 months of ethnographic field work in Burnt Church/Esgenoôpetitj, Fishing in Contested Waters explores the origins of this dispute and the beliefs and experiences that motivated the locals involved in it. Weaving the perspectives of Native and non-Native people together, Sarah J. King examines the community as a contested place, simultaneously Mi'kmaw and Canadian. Drawing on philosophy and indigenous, environmental, and religious studies, Fishing in Contested Waters demonstrates the deep roots of contemporary conflicts over rights, sovereignty, conservation, and identity.
    DOI: 10.3138/9781442689930
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    At the Limits of Justice : Women of Colour on Terror (2014)
    Toronto : University of Toronto Press | Berlin : Walter de Gruyter GmbH
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    ISBN: 9781442616455
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (632 p.)
    Edition: 2018
    DDC: 303.6/25
    Abstract: The fear and violence that followed the events of September 11, 2001 touched lives all around the world, even in places that few would immediately associate with the global war on terror. In At the Limits of Justice, twenty-nine contributors from six countries explore the proximity of terror in their own lives and in places ranging from Canada and the United States to Jamaica, Palestine/Israel, Australia, Guyana, Chile, Pakistan, and across the African continent.In this collection, female scholars of colour - including leading theorists on issues of indigeneity, race, and feminism - examine the political, social, and personal repercussions of the war on terror through contributions that range from testimony and poetry to scholarly analysis. Inspired by both the personal and the global impact of this violence within the war on terror, they expose the way in which the war on terror is presented as a distant and foreign issue at the same time that it is deeply present in the lives of women and others all around the world.An impassioned but rigorous examination of issues of race and gender in contemporary politics, At the Limits of Justice is also a call to create moral communities which will find terror and violence unacceptable.
    DOI: 10.3138/9781442616455
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    Creole Identity in Postcolonial Indonesia (2014)
    Berlin : Walter de Gruyter GmbH
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    ISBN: 9781782382690
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (236 p.)
    Series Statement: Integration and Conflict Studies 9
    DDC: 305.8009598/22
    Abstract: Contributing to identity formation in ethnically and religiously diverse postcolonial societies, this book examines the role played by creole identity in Indonesia, and in particular its capital, Jakarta. While, on the one hand, it facilitates transethnic integration and promotes a specifically postcolonial sense of common nationhood due to its heterogeneous origins, creole groups of people are often perceived ambivalently in the wake of colonialism and its demise, on the other. In this book, Jacqueline Knörr analyzes the social, historical, and political contexts of creoleness both at the grassroots and the State level, showing how different sections of society engage with creole identity in order to promote collective identification transcending ethnic and religious boundaries, as well as for reasons of self-interest and ideological projects.
    DOI: 10.1515/9781782382690
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    Hindi Is Our Ground, English Is Our Sky : Education, Language, and Social Class in Contemporary India (2014)
    Berlin : Walter de Gruyter GmbH
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    ISBN: 9781782382331
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (236 p.)
    DDC: 306.4
    Abstract: A sea change has occurred in the Indian economy in the last three decades, spurring the desire to learn English. Most scholars and media venues have focused on English exclusively for its ties to processes of globalization and the rise of new employment opportunities.  The pursuit of class mobility, however, involves Hindi as much as English in the vast Hindi-Belt of northern India.  Schools are institutions on which class mobility depends, and they are divided by Hindi and English in the rubric of "medium," the primary language of pedagogy. This book demonstrates that the school division allows for different visions of what it means to belong to the nation and what is central and peripheral in the nation. It also shows how the language-medium division reverberates unevenly and unequally through the nation, and that schools illustrate the tensions brought on by economic liberalization and middle-class status.
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    Gender History in a Transnational Perspective : Networks, Biographies, Gender Orders (2014)
    Berlin : Walter de Gruyter GmbH
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    ISBN: 9781782382751
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (296 p.)
    DDC: 305.8
    Abstract: Recent debates have used the concept of "transnational history" to broaden research on historical subjects that transcend national boundaries and encourage a shift away from official inter-state interactions to institutions, groups, and actors that have been obscured. This approach proves particularly fruitful for the dynamic field of global gender and women's history. By looking at the restless lives and work of women's activists in informal border-crossings, ephemeral NGOs, the lower management of established international organizations, and other global networks, this volume reflects the potential of a new perspective that allows for a more adequate analysis of transnational activities. By pointing out cultural hierarchies, the vicissitudes of translation and re-interpretation, and the ambiguity of intercultural exchange, this volume demonstrates the critical potential of transnational history. It allows us to see the limits of universalist and cosmopolitan claims so dear to many historical actors and historians.
    DOI: 10.1515/9781782382751
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    Atlantic Automobilism : Emergence and Persistence of the Car, 1895-1940 (2014)
    Berlin : Walter de Gruyter GmbH
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    ISBN: 9781782383789
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (768 p.)
    Series Statement: Explorations in Mobility 1
    DDC: 306.4/6
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    Keywords: Geschichte 1895-1940 ; Personenkraftwagen ; USA
    Abstract: Our continued use of the combustion engine car in the 21st century, despite many rational arguments against it, makes it more and more difficult to imagine that transport has a sustainable future. Offering a sweeping transatlantic perspective, this book explains the current obsession with automobiles by delving deep into the motives of early car users. It provides a synthesis of our knowledge about the emergence and persistence of the car, using a broad range of material including novels, poems, films, and songs to unearth the desires that shaped our present "car society." Combining social, psychological, and structural explanations, the author concludes that the ability of cars to convey transcendental experience, especially for men, explains our attachment to the vehicle.
    DOI: 10.1515/9781782383789
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    Mixed Matches : Transgressive Unions in Germany from the Reformation to the Enlightenment (2014)
    Berlin : Walter de Gruyter GmbH
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    ISBN: 9781782384106
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (252 p.)
    Series Statement: Spektrum: Publications of the German Studies Association 8
    DDC: 306.810943
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    Keywords: Geschichte 1517-1790 ; Ehe ; Soziale Norm ; Nonkonformismus ; Zölibat ; Mischehe ; Inzest ; Bigamie ; Interethnische Ehe ; Diskurs ; Deutschland ; Aufsatzsammlung
    Abstract: The significant changes in early modern German marriage practices included many unions that violated some taboo. That taboo could be theological and involve the marriage of monks and nuns, or refer to social misalliances as when commoners and princes (or princesses) wed. Equally transgressive were unions that crossed religious boundaries, such as marriages between Catholics and Protestants, those that violated ethnic or racial barriers, and those that broke kin-related rules. Taking as a point of departure Martin Luther's redefinition of marriage, the contributors to this volume spin out the multiple ways that the Reformers' attempts to simplify and clarify marriage affected education, philosophy, literature, high politics, diplomacy, and law. Ranging from the Reformation, through the ages of confessionalization, to the Enlightenment, Mixed Matches addresses the historical complexity of the socio-cultural institution of marriage.
    DOI: 10.1515/9781782384106
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    Whose Cosmopolitanism? : Critical Perspectives, Relationalities and Discontents (2014)
    Berlin : Walter de Gruyter GmbH
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    ISBN: 9781782384465
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (264 p.)
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    Keywords: Begriff ; Sozialer Prozess ; Weltbürgertum ; Aufsatzsammlung
    Abstract: The term cosmopolitan is increasingly used within different social, cultural and political settings, including academia, popular media and national politics. However those who invoke the cosmopolitan project rarely ask whose experience, understanding, or vision of cosmopolitanism is being described and for whose purposes? In response, this volume assembles contributors from different disciplines and theoretical backgrounds to examine cosmopolitanism's possibilities, aspirations and applications-as well as its tensions, contradictions, and discontents-so as to offer a critical commentary on the vital but often neglected question: whose cosmopolitanism? The book investigates when, where, and how cosmopolitanism emerges as a contemporary social process, global aspiration or emancipatory political project and asks whether it can serve as a political or methodological framework for action in a world of conflict and difference.
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    Mass Communication In Israel : Nationalism, Globalization, and Segmentation (2014)
    Berlin : Walter de Gruyter GmbH
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    ISBN: 9781782384526
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (238 p.)
    DDC: 302.23/095694
    Abstract: Mass communication has long been recognized as an important contributor to national identity and nation building. This book examines the relationship between media and nationalism in Israel, arguing that, in comparison to other countries, the Israeli case is unique. It explores the roots and evolution of newspapers, journalism, radio, television, and the debut of the Internet on both the cultural and the institutional levels, and examines milestones in the socio-political development of Hebrew and Israeli mass communication. In evaluating the technological changes in the media, the book shows how such shifts contribute to segmentation and fragmentation in the age of globalization.  ...
    DOI: 10.1515/9781782384526
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    The Politics of English in Puerto Rico's Schools (2014)
    Boulder : Lynne Rienner Publishers | Berlin : Walter de Gruyter GmbH
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    ISBN: 9781685855369
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (175 p.)
    Edition: 2023
    DDC: 306.4497295
    Keywords: Public School ; Englischunterricht ; Puerto Rico
    Abstract: How have colonial and partisan politics in Puerto Rico affected the language used in public schools? What can we learn from the conflict over the place of English in Puerto Rican society? How has the role of English evolved over time? Addressing these questions, Jorge Schmidt incisively explores the complex relationships among politics, language, and education in Puerto Rico from 1898, when Spain ceded the island to the United States, to the present.
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    Hunters, Predators and Prey : Inuit Perceptions of Animals (2014)
    Berlin : Walter de Gruyter GmbH
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    ISBN: 9781782384069
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (418 p.)
    DDC: 398.24/5
    Abstract: Inuit hunting traditions are rich in perceptions, practices and stories relating to animals and human beings. The authors examine key figures such as the raven, an animal that has a central place in Inuit culture as a creator and a trickster, and qupirruit, a category consisting of insects and other small life forms. After these non-social and inedible animals, they discuss the dog, the companion of the hunter, and the fellow hunter, the bear, considered to resemble a human being. A discussion of the renewal of whale hunting accompanies the chapters about animals considered 'prey par excellence': the caribou, the seals and the whale, symbol of the whole. By giving precedence to Inuit categories such as 'inua' (owner) and 'tarniq' (shade) over European concepts such as 'spirit 'and 'soul', the book compares and contrasts human beings and animals to provide a better understanding of human-animal relationships in a hunting society.
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    Orientalism and the Figure of the Jew (2014)
    New York, NY : Fordham University Press | Berlin : Walter de Gruyter GmbH
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    ISBN: 9780823262946
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (376 p.)
    DDC: 303.48/2430509034
    Abstract: Orientalism and the Figure of the Jew proposes a new way of understanding modern Orientalism. Tracing a path of modern Orientalist thought in German across crucial writings from the late eighteenth to the mid–twentieth centuries, Librett argues that Orientalism and anti-Judaism are inextricably entangled.Librett suggests, further, that the Western assertion of “material” power, in terms of which Orientalism is often read, is overdetermined by a “spiritual” weakness: an anxiety about the absence of absolute foundations and values that coincides with Western modernity itself. The modern West, he shows, posits an Oriental origin as a fetish to fill the absent place of lacking foundations. This fetish is appropriated as Western through a quasi-secularized application of Christian typology. Further, the Western appropriation of the “good” Orient always leaves behind the remainder of the “bad,” inassimilable Orient.The book traces variations on this theme through historicist and idealist texts of the nineteenth century and then shows how high modernists like Buber, Kafka, Mann, and Freud place this historicist narrative in question. The book concludes with the outlines of a cultural historiography that would distance itself from the metaphysics of historicism, confronting instead its underlying anxieties.
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    DOI: 10.1515/9780823262946
    URL: https://doi.org/10.1515/9780823262946
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    The Wrongs of the Right : Language, Race, and the Republican Party in the Age of Obama (2014)
    New York, NY : New York University Press | Berlin : Walter de Gruyter GmbH
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    ISBN: 9780814764756
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource
    DDC: 305.896/073
    Abstract: Examines the coded language of the Republican PartyIn The Wrongs of the Right, Matthew W. Hughey and Gregory S. Parks set postracial claims into relief against a background of pre- and post-election racial animus directed at President Obama, his administration, and African Americans. They show how the political Right deploys racial fears, coded language and implicit bias to express and build opposition to the Obama administration. Racial meanings are reservoirs rich in political currency, and the race card remains a potent resource for othering the first black president in a context rife with Nativism, xenophobia, white racial fatigue, and serious racial inequality.
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    DOI: 10.18574/nyu/9780814764756.001.0001
    URL: https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9780814764756
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    What's Queer about Europe? : Productive Encounters and Re-enchanting Paradigms (2014)
    New York, NY : Fordham University Press | Berlin : Walter de Gruyter GmbH
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    ISBN: 9780823255382
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (256 p.)
    DDC: 306.766094
    Abstract: What’s Queer about Europe? examines how queer theory helps us initiate disorienting conjunctions and counterintuitive encounters for imagining historical and contemporary Europe. This book queers Europe and Europeanizes queer, forcing a reconsideration of both. Its contributors study Europe relationally, asking not so much what Europe is but what we do when we attempt to define it.The topics discussed include: gay marriage in Renaissance Rome, Russian anarchism and gender politics in early-twentieth-century Switzerland, colonialism and sexuality in Italy, queer masculinities in European popular culture, queer national identities in French cinema, and gender theories and activism. What these apparently disparate topics have in common is the urgency of the political, legal, and cultural issues they tackle. Asking what is queer about Europe means probing the blind spots that continue to structure the long and discrepant process of Europeanization.
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    DOI: 10.1515/9780823255382
    URL: https://doi.org/10.1515/9780823255382
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    Faithful Bodies : Performing Religion and Race in the Puritan Atlantic (2014)
    New York, NY : New York University Press | Berlin : Walter de Gruyter GmbH
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    ISBN: 9781479814268
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource
    Series Statement: Early American Places 13
    DDC: 305.800974
    Abstract: Inthe seventeenth-century English Atlantic, religious beliefs and practicesplayed a central role in creating racial identity. English Protestantismprovided a vocabulary and structure to describe and maintain boundaries betweeninsider and outsider. In this path-breaking study, Heather MiyanoKopelson peels back the layers ofconflicting definitions of bodies and competing practices of faith in thepuritan Atlantic, demonstrating how the categories of “white,”“black,” and “Indian” developed alongside religious boundaries between“Christian” and “heathen” and between “Catholic” and “Protestant.”Faithful Bodies focuses on threecommunities of Protestant dissent in the Atlantic World: Bermuda,Massachusetts, and Rhode Island. In this “puritan Atlantic,” religiondetermined insider and outsider status: at times Africans and Natives couldbelong as long as they embraced the Protestant faith, while Irish Catholics andEnglish Quakers remained suspect. Colonists’interactions with indigenous peoples of the Americas and with West CentralAfricans shaped their understandings of human difference and its acceptableboundaries. Prayer, religious instruction, sexual behavior, andother public and private acts became markers of whether or not blacks andIndians were sinning Christians or godless heathens. As slavery becamelaw, transgressing people of color counted less and less as sinners in Englishpuritans’ eyes, even as some of them made Christianity an integral part oftheir communities. As Kopelson shows, this transformation proceededunevenly but inexorably during the long seventeenth century.
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    DOI: 10.18574/nyu/9781479805006.001.0001
    URL: https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9781479814268
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    Visions of Zion : Ethiopians and Rastafari in the Search for the Promised Land (2014)
    New York, NY : New York University Press | Berlin : Walter de Gruyter GmbH
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    ISBN: 9781479890996
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource
    DDC: 305.6996760963
    Abstract: Inreggae song after reggae song Bob Marley and other reggae singers speak of thePromised Land of Ethiopia. “Repatriation is a must!” they cry. The Rastafarihave been travelling to Ethiopia since the movement originated in Jamaica in1930s. They consider it the Promised Land, and repatriation is acornerstone of their faith. Though Ethiopians see Rastafari as immigrants, theRastafari see themselves as returning members of the Ethiopian diaspora.In Visions of Zion, Erin C. MacLeod offers the first in-depthinvestigation into how Ethiopians perceive Rastafari andRastafarians within Ethiopia and the role this unique immigrantcommunity plays within Ethiopian society.Rastafariare unusual among migrants, basing their movements on spiritual rather thaneconomic choices. This volume offers those who study the movement a broaderunderstanding of the implications of repatriation. Taking the Ethiopianperspective into account, it argues that migrant and diaspora identitiesare the products of negotiation, and it illuminates the implications of thisnegotiation for concepts of citizenship, as well as for our understandings ofpan-Africanism and south-south migration. Providing a rare look at migration to a non-Western country, this volumealso fills a gap in the broader immigration studies literature.
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    DOI: 10.18574/nyu/9781479882243.001.0001
    URL: https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9781479890996
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    Historically Black : Imagining Community in a Black Historic District (2014)
    New York, NY : New York University Press | Berlin : Walter de Gruyter GmbH
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    ISBN: 9780814724743
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource
    DDC: 305.800973
    Abstract: Questions the way we understand the idea of community through an investigation of the term "historically black"In Historically Black, Mieka Brand Polanco examines the concept of community in the United States: how communities are experienced and understood, the complex relationship between human beings and their social and physical landscapes—and how the term “community” is sometimes conjured to feign a cohesiveness that may not actually exist. Drawing on ethnographic and historical materials from Union, Virginia, Historically Black offers a nuanced and sensitive portrait of a federally recognized Historic District under the category “Ethnic Heritage—Black.”Since Union has been home to a racially mixed population since at least the late 19th century, calling it “historically black” poses some curious existential questions to the black residents who currently live there. Union’s identity as a “historically black community” encourages a perception of the town as a monochromatic and monohistoric landscape, effectively erasing both old-timer white residents and newcomer black residents while allowing newer white residents to take on a proud role as preservers of history.Gestures to “community” gloss an oversimplified perspective of race, history and space that conceals much of the richness (and contention) of lived reality in Union, as well as in the larger United States. They allow Americans to avoid important conversations about the complex and unfolding nature by which groups of people and social/physical landscapes are conceptualized as a single unified whole. This multi-layered, multi-textured ethnography explores a key concept, inviting public conversation about the dynamic ways in which race, space, and history inform our experiences and understanding of community.
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    DOI: 10.18574/nyu/9780814762882.001.0001
    URL: https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9780814724743
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    Environmental Aesthetics : Crossing Divides and Breaking Ground (2014)
    New York, NY : Fordham University Press | Berlin : Walter de Gruyter GmbH
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    ISBN: 9780823254521
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (272 p.)
    Series Statement: Groundworks: Ecological Issues in Philosophy and Theology
    DDC: 304.2
    Abstract: Environmental aesthetics crosses several commonly recognized divides: between analytic and continental philosophy, Eastern and Western traditions, universalizing and historicizing approaches, and theoretical and practical concerns. This volume sets out to show how these,perspectives can be brought into conversation with one another.The first part surveys the development of the field and discusses some important future directions. The second part explains how widening the scope of environmental aesthetics demands a continual rethinking of the relationship between aesthetics and other fields. How does environmental aesthetics relate to ethics? Does aesthetic appreciation of the environment entail an attitude of respect? What is the relationship between the theory and practice? The third part is devoted to the relationship between the aesthetics of nature and the aesthetics of art. Can art help “save the Earth”? The final part illustrates the emergence of practical applications from theoretical studies by focusing on concrete case studies.
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    DOI: 10.1515/9780823254521
    URL: https://doi.org/10.1515/9780823254521
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    War after Death : On Violence and Its Limits (2014)
    New York, NY : Fordham University Press | Berlin : Walter de Gruyter GmbH
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    ISBN: 9780823256815
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (256 p.)
    DDC: 303.609
    Abstract: War after Death considers forms of violence that regularly occur in actual wars but do not often factor into the stories we tell about war, which revolve invariably around killing and death. Recent history demonstrates that body counts are more necessary than ever, but the fact remains that war and death is only part of the story—an essential but ultimately subordinate part. Beyond killing, there is no war without attacks upon the built environment, ecosystems, personal property, artworks, archives, and intangible traditions.Destructive as it may be, such violence is difficult to classify because it does not pose a grave threat to human lives. Nonetheless, the book argues that destruction of the nonhuman or nonliving is a constitutive dimension of all violence—especially forms of extreme violence against the living such as torture and rape; and it examines how the language and practice of war are transformed when this dimension is taken into account.Finally, War after Death offers a rethinking of psychoanalytic approaches to war and the theory of the death drive that underlies them.
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    DOI: 10.1515/9780823256815
    URL: https://doi.org/10.1515/9780823256815
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    Obligation in Exile : The Jewish Diaspora, Israel and Critique (2014)
    Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press | Berlin : Walter de Gruyter GmbH
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    ISBN: 9780748692316
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (312 p.)
    Edition: 2022
    DDC: 305.8924
    Abstract: Explores the complex relationship between Israel and the Diaspora Jewish identityCombining political theory and sociological interviews spanning four countries, Israel, the USA, Canada and the UK, Ilan Zvi Baron explores the Jewish Diaspora/Israel relationship and suggests that instead of looking at Diaspora Jews' relationship with Israel as a matter of loyalty, it is one of obligation. Baron develops an outline for a theory of transnational political obligation and, in the process, provides an alternative way to understand and explore the Diaspora/Israel relationship than one mired in partisan debates about whether or not being a good Jew means supporting Israel. He concludes by arguing that critique of Israel is not just about Israeli policy, but about what it means to be a Diaspora Jew.Find Out MoreRead the Preface and Introduction online for free (pdf)"...
    DOI: 10.1515/9780748692316
    URL: https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9780748692316
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    Essential Demographic Methods (2014)
    Cambridge, MA : Harvard University Press | Berlin : Walter de Gruyter GmbH
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    ISBN: 9780674369757
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (306 p.) , 40 graphs, 46 tables
    Edition: Pilot project. eBook available to selected US libraries only
    DDC: 304.6072/3
    Abstract: Essential Demographic Methods brings to readers the full range of ideas and skills of demographic analysis that lie at the core of social sciences and public health. Classroom tested over many years, filled with fresh data and examples, this approachable text is tailored to the needs of beginners, advanced students, and researchers alike. An award-winning teacher and eminent demographer, Kenneth Wachter uses themes from the individual lifecourse, history, and global change to convey the meaning of concepts such as exponential growth, cohorts and periods, lifetables, population projection, proportional hazards, parity, marity, migration flows, and stable populations. The presentation is carefully paced and accessible to readers with knowledge of high-school algebra. Each chapter contains original problem sets and worked examples. From the most basic concepts and measures to developments in spatial demography and hazard modeling at the research frontier, Essential Demographic Methods brings out the wider appeal of demography in its connections across the sciences and humanities. It is a lively, compact guide for understanding quantitative population analysis in the social and biological world.
    DOI: 10.4159/9780674369757
    URL: https://doi.org/10.4159/9780674369757
    URL: https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9780674369757
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    Language, Borders and Identity (2014)
    Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press | Berlin : Walter de Gruyter GmbH
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    ISBN: 9780748669783
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (288 p.) , 66 B/W illustrations 14 B/W tables
    Edition: 2022
    DDC: 306.44
    Abstract: A wide-ranging and multi-disciplinary discussion of the connections between language, borders and identitiesIdentifying and examining political, socio-psychological and symbolic borders, Language, Borders and Identity encompasses a broad, geographically diverse spectrum of border contexts, taking a multi-disciplinary approach by combining sociolinguistics research with human geography, anthropology and social psychology. The book illustrates a representative range of methodological approaches used by researchers in the field and examines regional and local borders alongside the political borders that divide monoglossic and heteroglossic territories.Using international case studies and examples throughout, this book also looks to symbolic borders, which are often encoded in the semiotic manipulation of the linguistic landscape. It further assesses the linguistic implications of the presence of borders in applied contexts, including language planning and policy (e.g. in multilingual education or for the protection of minority languages) and border control.By casting its net wide, Language, Borders and Identity develops and refines models of how language is used to construct borders, and to indicate on which side of border speakers situate themselves. This book brings into focus the dual reactive and proactive functions that language serves in this respect, exploring the tensions between essentialist and constructionist approaches to identity, and offers a valuable resource for advanced students and researchers in sociolinguistics and the sociology of language.Covers political, socio-psychological and symbolic bordersTakes a multi-disciplinary approach by combining sociolinguistic research with human geography, anthropology and social psychologyUses international case studies and examples throughout...
    DOI: 10.1515/9780748669783
    URL: https://doi.org/10.1515/9780748669783
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    Young Children as Intercultural Mediators : Mandarin-speaking Chinese Families in Britain (2014)
    Blue Ridge Summit, PA : Multilingual Matters | Berlin : Walter de Gruyter GmbH
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    ISBN: 9781783092147
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource
    Series Statement: Languages for Intercultural Communication and Education
    DDC: 305.7951041
    Abstract: This multidisciplinary approach to cultural mediation brings together insights from anthropology, sociology, linguistics and intercultural communication to offer a detailed depiction of family life in immigrant Chinese communities. Utilising a strongly contextualised and evidence-based narrative approach to exploring the nature of child cultural mediation, the author provides an insightful analysis of intercultural relationships between children and parents in immigrant families and of the informative aspects of their everyday lives. Furthermore, the family home setting offers the reader a glimpse of a personal territory that researchers often have great difficulty accessing. This ethnographic study will be of interest to students, researchers and professionals working in the areas of intercultural communication, childhood studies, family relations and migration studies.
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    DOI: 10.21832/9781783092147
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    APost-Liberal Approach to Language Policy in Education (2014)
    Blue Ridge Summit, PA : Multilingual Matters | Berlin : Walter de Gruyter GmbH
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    ISBN: 9781783092857
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource
    Series Statement: New Perspectives on Language and Education
    DDC: 306.44/9
    Abstract: This provocative defense of language diversity works through the strengths and weaknesses of liberal political theory to inform language policy. The book presents the argument that policy must occupy the space between 'linguistics of community' and 'linguistics of contact' in a way that balances individual autonomy and group recognition while not reifying 'language'. Drawing on the importance of the language/identity link, the author distinguishes between language negative liberalism and language positive liberalism, arguing against the former. This distinction orients consideration of increasingly specific language policy issues, such as official languages, language rights, bilingual education, and uses of language varieties within classrooms.
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    DOI: 10.21832/9781783092857
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    Salsa, Language and Transnationalism (2014)
    Blue Ridge Summit, PA : Multilingual Matters | Berlin : Walter de Gruyter GmbH
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    ISBN: 9781783091904
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource
    Series Statement: Encounters
    DDC: 306.44
    Abstract: What happens in globalised social contexts if people identify with a language that is not traditionally considered to be ‘their’ language? This unique contribution to the field of sociolinguistics scrutinises language ideologies of German and Australian Communities of Practice constituted by Salsa dance and asks what languages symbolise in transnational, non-ethnic cultures. Using ethnographic methodology and a deconstructive approach to language it examines these different Salsa communities and gives insight into the interaction of social discourses from local, national and transnational realms, examining differences, similarities and a simultaneous multiplicity of languages’ symbolic functions. This book will be welcomed by postgraduates, professional sociolinguists and linguistic anthropologists as well as scholars of cultural anthropology, sociology and cultural studies who are interested in the development of modernist categories in transnational culture.
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    DOI: 10.21832/9781783091904
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    The Acquisition of Sociolinguistic Competence in a Lingua Franca Context (2014)
    Blue Ridge Summit, PA : Multilingual Matters | Berlin : Walter de Gruyter GmbH
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    ISBN: 9781783091447
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource
    Series Statement: Second Language Acquisition
    DDC: 306.4409494
    Abstract: In a world where an increasing amount of communication takes place in English among non-native speakers, this study presents data from email exchanges to provide the first examination of sociolinguistic competence and the acquisition of native-like variability in an English as a Lingua Franca (ELF) context. The analysis of a range of linguistic variables (future tense, relative pronoun choice, complementizer use and adverbial placement) in the online interactions of Swiss speakers (with German, French and Italian mother tongues) allows the reader to gain a greater understanding of which linguistic features are source language-related and which are learning-related. This book will be a valuable resource for postgraduates and researchers interested in language variation and change, ELF and second language acquisition, as well as for undergraduates wanting guidance on different ways of examining sociolinguistic variables.
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    DOI: 10.21832/9781783091447
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    Language Policy Processes and Consequences : Arizona Case Studies (2014)
    Blue Ridge Summit, PA : Multilingual Matters | Berlin : Walter de Gruyter GmbH
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    ISBN: 9781783091959
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource
    Series Statement: Bilingual Education & Bilingualism
    DDC: 306.449791
    Keywords: Aufsatzsammlung ; Fallstudiensammlung
    Abstract: This book traces the recent socio-historical trajectory of educational language policy in Arizona, the state with the most restrictive English-only implementation in the US. Chapters, each representing a case study of policy-making in the state, include: • an overview and background of the English-only movement, the genesis of Structured English Immersion (SEI), and current status of language policy in Arizona; • an in-depth review of the Flores case presented by its lead lawyer; • a look at early Proposition 203 implementation in the context of broader educational ‘reform’ efforts; • examples of how early state-wide mandates impacted teacher professional development; • a presentation of how new university-level teacher preparation curricula misaligns with commonly-held beliefs about what teachers of language minority students should know and understand; • an exploration of principals’ concerns about enforcing top-down policies for SEI implementation; • an investigation of what SEI policy looks like in today’s classrooms and whether it constitutes equity; • and finally, a discussion of what the various cases mean for the education of English learners in the state.
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    DOI: 10.21832/9781783091959
    URL: https://doi.org/10.21832/9781783091959
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    Language Policies in Finland and Sweden : Interdisciplinary and Multi-sited Comparisons (2014)
    Blue Ridge Summit, PA : Multilingual Matters | Berlin : Walter de Gruyter GmbH
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    ISBN: 9781783092710
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource
    Series Statement: Multilingual Matters
    DDC: 306.44/9485
    Abstract: In this volume, authors from four disciplines join forces to develop an analysis of political discourse on a comparative and multidisciplinary basis. Language policy is often based on the political use of history, where the remembrance of past experiences by communities, individuals and historical bodies play a fundamental role. These authors see politics and policies as multi-sited by nature, taking place, being constructed, contested and reproduced simultaneously and in different times and places. Theoretically the book draws on the concept of language policy, operationalising it through the rhizomatic nature of politics and policies. Although confined empirically to considerations of situations in Finland and Sweden, the volume extends far beyond these locations in its theoretical contributions. The polities of Finland and Sweden are the lens through which a new and much needed understanding of language policy research, and policy research in general, is posited.
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    DOI: 10.21832/9781783092710
    URL: https://doi.org/10.21832/9781783092710
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    The Origins of the Urban Crisis : Race and Inequality in Postwar Detroit (2014)
    Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press | Berlin : Walter de Gruyter GmbH
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    ISBN: 9781400851218
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource(432 p.) , illustrations
    Series Statement: Princeton Classics
    DDC: 305.8/00977434
    Abstract: Once America’s "arsenal of democracy," Detroit is now the symbol of the American urban crisis. In this reappraisal of America’s racial and economic inequalities, Thomas Sugrue asks why Detroit and other industrial cities have become the sites of persistent racialized poverty. He challenges the conventional wisdom that urban decline is the product of the social programs and racial fissures of the 1960s. Weaving together the history of workplaces, unions, civil rights groups, political organizations, and real estate agencies, Sugrue finds the roots of today’s urban poverty in a hidden history of racial violence, discrimination, and deindustrialization that reshaped the American urban landscape after World War II.This Princeton Classics edition includes a new preface by Sugrue, discussing the lasting impact of the postwar transformation on urban America and the chronic issues leading to Detroit’s bankruptcy.
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    DOI: 10.1515/9781400851218
    URL: https://doi.org/10.1515/9781400851218
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    Caring Across Generations : The Linked Lives of Korean American Families (2014)
    New York, NY : New York University Press | Berlin : Walter de Gruyter GmbH
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    ISBN: 9780814771983
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource , 1 black and white illustrations
    DDC: 305.8951073
    Abstract: More than 1.3 million Korean Americans livein the United States, the majority of them foreign-born immigrants and theirchildren, the so-called 1.5 and second generations. While many sons anddaughters of Korean immigrants outwardly conform to the stereotyped image ofthe upwardly mobile, highly educated super-achiever, the realities andchallenges that the children of Korean immigrants face in their adult lives astheir immigrant parents grow older and confronthealth issues that are far more complex. In CaringAcross Generations, Grace J. Yoo and Barbara W. Kim explore how earlierexperiences helping immigrant parents navigate American society have prepared KoreanAmerican children for negotiating and redefining the traditional gender norms,close familial relationships, and cultural practices that their parents expectthem to adhere to as they reach adulthood. Drawing on in-depth interviews with137 second and 1.5 generation Korean Americans, Yoo & Kim explore issuessuch as their childhood experiences, their interpreted cultural traditions andvalues in regards to care and respect for the elderly, their attitudes andvalues regarding care for aging parents, their observations of parents facingretirement and life changes, and their experiences with providing care whenparents face illness or the prospects of dying. A unique study at theintersection of immigration and aging, CaringAcross Generations provides a new look at the linked lives of immigrantsand their families, and the struggles and triumphs that they face over manygenerations.
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    DOI: 10.18574/nyu/9780814768976.001.0001
    URL: https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9780814771983
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    Straights : Heterosexuality in Post-Closeted Culture (2014)
    New York, NY : New York University Press | Berlin : Walter de Gruyter GmbH
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    ISBN: 9780814785812
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource
    DDC: 306.76
    Abstract: Sincethe Stonewall Riots in 1969, the politics of sexual identity in America havedrastically transformed. It’s almost old news that recent generations ofAmericans have grown up in a culture more accepting of out lesbians and gaymen, seen the proliferation of LGBTQ media representation, and witnessed theattainment of a range of legal rights for same-sex couples. But the changeswrought by a so-called “post-closeted culture” have not just affected the queercommunity—heterosexuals are also in the midst of a sea change in how theirsexuality plays out in everyday life. In Straights,James Joseph Dean argues that heterosexuals can neither assume the invisibilityof gays and lesbians, nor count on the assumption that their ownheterosexuality will go unchallenged. The presumption that we are allheterosexual, or that there is such a thing as ‘compulsory heterosexuality,’ heclaims, has vanished.Based on 60 in-depth interviews witha diverse group of straight men and women, Straights explores how straight Americans make sense of their sexual and genderedselves in this new landscape, particularly with an understanding of how racedoes and does not play a role in these conceptions. Dean provides a historicalunderstanding of heterosexuality and how it was first established, then moveson to examine the changing nature of masculinity and femininity and, mostimportantly, the emergence of a new kind of heterosexuality—notably, for men,the metrosexual, and for women, the emergence of a more fluid sexuality. Thebook also documents the way heterosexuals interact and form relationships withtheir LGBTQ family members, friends, acquaintances, and coworkers. Althoughhomophobia persists among straight individuals, Dean shows that beinggay-friendly or against homophobic expressions is also increasingly commonamong straight Americans. A fascinating study, Straights provides an in-depth look at the changing nature ofsexual expression in America. Instructors: PowerPoint slides for each chapter are available by clicking on the files below. Introduction Chapter 1 Chapter 2 Chapter 3 Chapter 4 Chapter 5 Chapter 6...
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    DOI: 10.18574/nyu/9780814762752.001.0001
    URL: https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9780814785812
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    The Reader in al-Jahiz : The Epistolary Rhetoric of an Arabic Prose Master (2014)
    Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press | Berlin : Walter de Gruyter GmbH
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    ISBN: 9780748692750
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (288 p.)
    Edition: 2022
    Series Statement: Edinburgh Studies in Classical Arabic Literature : ESCAL
    DDC: 306.09
    Abstract: Explores the intricately crafted rhetorical strategies used by al-Jāḥiẓ in his lettersGBS_insertPreviewButtonPopup(['ISBN:9780748692743','ISBN:9780748692750']);The 9th-century essayist, theologian and encyclopaedist 'Amr b. Baḥr al-Jāḥiẓ has long been acknowledged as a master of early Arabic prose writing. Many of his most engaging writings were clearly intended for a broad readership but were presented as letters to individuals. Despite the importance and quantity of these letters, surprisingly little academic notice has been paid to them.Now, Thomas Hefter takes a new approach in interpreting some of al-Jāḥiẓ's 'epistolary monographs'. By focussing on the varying ways in which he wrote to the addressee, Hefter shows how al-Jāḥiẓ shaped his conversations on the page in order to guide (or manipulate) his actual readers and encourage them to engage with his complex materials.Key FeaturesLooks at letters from one of the most unique minds of the Abbasid era that cover sectarian and ethnic rivalries, ethical questions, intoxicating beverages and daily lifeRelates al-Jāḥiẓ's experiments with the letter frame to his views on occupations, human geography and other issues of his dayExamines the role of self-parody in al-Jāḥiẓ's fictional conversations with his addresseesExplores the rich interplay of contending voices"...
    DOI: 10.1515/9780748692750
    URL: https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9780748692750
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    AParents' and Teachers' Guide to Bilingualism (2014)
    Blue Ridge Summit, PA : Multilingual Matters | Berlin : Walter de Gruyter GmbH
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    ISBN: 9781783091614
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource
    Series Statement: Parents' and Teachers' Guides
    DDC: 306.44/6083
    Abstract: In this accessible guide to bilingualism in the family and the classroom, Colin Baker delivers a realistic picture of the joys and difficulties of raising bilingual children. The Q&A format of this book makes it the natural choice for the busy parent or teacher who needs an easy reference guide to the most frequently asked questions. This revised edition includes more information on bilingualism in the digital age, and incorporates the latest research in areas such as neonatal language experience, multilingualism, language mixing and the effect that siblings have on family language choice.
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    DOI: 10.21832/9781783091614
    URL: https://doi.org/10.21832/9781783091614
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    Mexican Hometown Associations in Chicagoacán : From Local to Transnational Civic Engagement (2014)
    New Brunswick, NJ : Rutgers University Press | Berlin : Walter de Gruyter GmbH
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    ISBN: 9780813564944
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource , 2 figures and 3 tables
    Series Statement: Latinidad: Transnational Cultures in the
    DDC: 305.868/72073077311
    Abstract: Chicago is home to the second-largest Mexican immigrant population in the United States, yet the activities of this community have gone relatively unexamined by both the media and academia. In this groundbreaking new book, Xóchitl Bada takes us inside one of the most vital parts of Chicago’s Mexican immigrant community—its many hometown associations. Hometown associations (HTAs) consist of immigrants from the same town in Mexico and often begin quite informally, as soccer clubs or prayer groups. As Bada’s work shows, however, HTAs have become a powerful force for change, advocating for Mexican immigrants in the United States while also working to improve living conditions in their communities of origin. Focusing on a group of HTAs founded by immigrants from the state of Michoacán, the book shows how their activism has bridged public and private spheres, mobilizing social reforms in both inner-city Chicago and rural Mexico. Bringing together ethnography, political theory, and archival research, Bada excavates the surprisingly long history of Chicago’s HTAs, dating back to the 1920s, then traces the emergence of new models of community activism in the twenty-first century. Filled with vivid observations and original interviews, Mexican Hometown Associations in Chicagoacán gives voice to an underrepresented community and sheds light on an underexplored form of global activism.
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    DOI: 10.36019/9780813564944
    URL: https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9780813564944
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    Border Medicine : A Transcultural History of Mexican American Curanderismo (2014)
    New York, NY : New York University Press | Berlin : Walter de Gruyter GmbH
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    ISBN: 9781479843015
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource
    Series Statement: North American Religions 10
    DDC: 973.046872
    Abstract: MexicanAmerican folk and religious healing, often referred to as curanderismo, has been a vital part of life in the Mexico-U.S.border region for centuries. A hybrid tradition made up primarily of indigenousand Iberian Catholic pharmacopeias, rituals, and notions of the self, curanderismo treats the sick person witha variety of healing modalities including herbal remedies, intercessory prayer,body massage, and energy manipulation. Curanderos,“healers,” embrace a holistic understanding of the patient, including body,soul, and community.Border Medicine examines the ongoingevolution of Mexican American religious healing from the end of the nineteenthcentury to the present. Illuminating the ways in which curanderismo has had an impact not only on the health and cultureof the borderlands but also far beyond, the book tracks its expansion from MexicanAmerican communities to Anglo and multiethnic contexts. While many healers treat Mexican and MexicanAmerican clientele, a significant number of curanderoshave worked with patients from other ethnic groups as well, especially thoseinvolved in North American metaphysical religions like spiritualism, mesmerism,New Thought, New Age, and energy-based alternative medicines. Hendricksonexplores this point of contact as an experience of transcultural exchange.Drawingon historical archives, colonial-era medical texts and accounts, earlyethnographies of the region, newspaper articles, memoirs, and contemporaryhealing guidebooks as well as interviews with contemporary healers, Border Medicine demonstrates the notableand ongoing influence of Mexican Americans on cultural and religious practicesin the United States, especially in the American West.
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    DOI: 10.18574/nyu/9781479834785.001.0001
    URL: https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9781479843015
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    At Freedom's Limit : Islam and the Postcolonial Predicament (2014)
    New York, NY : Fordham University Press | Berlin : Walter de Gruyter GmbH
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    ISBN: 9780823257898
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (272 p.)
    DDC: 306.6/97
    Abstract: The subject of this book is a new “Islam.” This Islam began to take shape in 1988 around the Rushdie affair, the collapse of the Berlin Wall in 1989, and the first Gulf War of 1991. It was consolidated in the period following September 11, 2001. It is a name, a discursive site, a signifier at once flexible and constrained—indeed, itis a geopolitical agon, in and around which some of the most pressing aporias of modernity, enlightenment, liberalism, and reformation are worked out.At this discursive site are many metonyms for Islam: the veiled or “pious” Muslim woman, the militant, the minority Muslim injured by Western free speech. Each of these figures functions as a cipher enabling repeated encounters with the question “How do we free ourselves from freedom?” Again and again, freedom is imagined as Western, modern, imperial—a dark imposition of Enlightenment. The pious and injured Muslim who desires his or her own enslavement is imagined as freedom’s other.At Freedom’s Limit is an intervention into current debates regarding religion, secularism, and Islam and provides a deep critique of the anthropology and sociology of Islam that have consolidated this formation. It shows that, even as this Islam gains increasing traction in cultural production from television shows to movies to novels, the most intricate contestations of Islam so construed are to be found in the work of Muslim writers and painters.This book includes extended readings of jihadist proclamations; postcolonial law; responses to law from minorities in Muslim-majority societies; Islamophobic films; the novels of Leila Aboulela, Mohammed Hanif, and Nadeem Aslam; and the paintings of Komail Aijazuddin.
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    DOI: 10.1515/9780823257898
    URL: https://doi.org/10.1515/9780823257898
    URL: https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9780823257898
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    Managing Inequality : Northern Racial Liberalism in Interwar Detroit (2014)
    New York, NY : New York University Press | Berlin : Walter de Gruyter GmbH
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    ISBN: 9781479803637
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource
    DDC: 305.896073077434
    Abstract: In the wake of the Civil War, many white northern leaders supported race-neutral laws and anti-discrimination statutes. These positions helped amplify the distinctions they drew between their political economic system, which they saw as forward-thinking in its promotion of free market capitalism, and the now vanquished southern system, which had been built on slavery. But this interest in legal race neutrality should not be mistaken for an effort to integrate northern African Americans into the state or society on an equal footing with whites. During the Great Migration, which brought tens of thousands of African Americans into Northern cities after World War I, white northern leaders faced new challenges from both white and African American activists and were pushed to manage race relations in a more formalized and proactive manner. The result was northern racial liberalism: the idea that all Americans, regardless of race, should be politically equal, but that the state cannot and indeed should not enforce racial equality by interfering with existing social or economic relations. In Managing Inequality, Karen R. Miller examines the formulation, uses, and growing political importance of northern racial liberalism in Detroit between the two World Wars. Miller argues that racial inequality was built into the liberal state at its inception, rather than produced by antagonists of liberalism. Managing Inequality shows that our current racial system—where race neutral language coincides with extreme racial inequalities that appear natural rather than political—has a history that is deeply embedded in contemporary governmental systems and political economies.In the wake of the Civil War, many white northern leaders supported race-neutral laws and anti-discrimination statutes. These positions helped amplify the distinctions they drew between their political economic system, which they saw as forward-thinking in its promotion of free market capitalism, and the now vanquished southern system, which had been built on slavery. But this interest in legal race neutrality should not be mistaken for an effort to integrate northern African Americans into the state or society on an equal footing with whites. During the Great Migration, which brought tens of thousands of African Americans into Northern cities after World War I, white northern leaders faced new challenges from both white and African American activists and were pushed to manage race relations in a more formalized and proactive manner. The result was northern racial liberalism: the idea that all Americans, regardless of race, should be politically equal, but that the state cannot and indeed should not enforce racial equality by interfering with existing social or economic relations. In Managing Inequality, Karen R. Miller examines the formulation, uses, and growing political importance of northern racial liberalism in Detroit between the two World Wars. Miller argues that racial inequality was built into the liberal state at its inception, rather than produced by antagonists of liberalism. Managing Inequality shows that our current racial system—where race neutral language coincides with extreme racial inequalities that appear natural rather than political—has a history that is deeply embedded in contemporary governmental systems and political economies.
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    DOI: 10.18574/nyu/9781479880096.001.0001
    URL: https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9781479803637
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    Kids in the Middle : How Children of Immigrants Negotiate Community Interactions for Their Families (2014)
    New Brunswick, NJ : Rutgers University Press | Berlin : Walter de Gruyter GmbH
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    ISBN: 9780813562209
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource , 5 tables
    Series Statement: Rutgers Series in Childhood Studies
    DDC: 305.9/069120973
    Abstract: Complicating the common view that immigrant incorporation is a top-down process, determined largely by parents, Vikki Katz explores how children actively broker connections that enable their families to become woven into the fabric of American life. Children’s immersion in the U.S. school system and contact with mainstream popular culture enables them more quickly to become fluent in English and familiar with the conventions of everyday life in the United States. These skills become an important factor in how families interact with their local environments. Kids in the Middle explores children’s contributions to the family strategies that improve communication between their parents and U.S. schools, healthcare facilities, and social services, from the perspectives of children, parents, and the English-speaking service providers that interact with these families via children’s assistance. Katz also considers how children’s brokering affects their developmental trajectories. While their help is critical to addressing short-term family needs, children’s responsibilities can constrain their access to educational resources and have consequences for their long-term goals. Kids in the Middle explores the complicated interweaving of family responsibility and individual attainment in these immigrant families. Through a unique interdisciplinary approach that combines elements of sociology and communication approaches, Katz investigates not only how immigrant children connect their families with local institutional networks, but also how they engage different media forms to bridge gaps between their homes and mainstream American culture. Drawing from extensive firsthand research, Katz takes us inside an urban community in Southern California and the experiences of a specific community of Latino immigrant families there. In addition to documenting the often-overlooked contributions that children of immigrants make to their families’ community encounters, the book provides a critical set of recommendations for how service providers and local institutions might better assist these children in fulfilling their family responsibilities. The story told in Kids in the Middle reveals an essential part of the immigrant experience that transcends both geographic and ethnic boundaries.
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    DOI: 10.36019/9780813562209
    URL: https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9780813562209
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    The Price of Paradise : The Costs of Inequality and a Vision for a More Equitable America (2014)
    New York, NY : New York University Press | Berlin : Walter de Gruyter GmbH
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    ISBN: 9780814724897
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource
    DDC: 305.50973
    Abstract: American communities are facing chronic problems: fiscal stress, urban decline, environmental sprawl, mass incarceration, political isolation, disproportionate foreclosures and severe public health risks. In The Price of Paradise, David Troutt argues that it is a lack of mutuality in our local decision making that has led to this looming crisis facing cities and local governments. Arguing that there are structural flaws in the American dream, Troutt investigates the role that place plays in our thinking and how we have organized our communities to create or deny opportunity. Legal rules and policies that promoted mobility for most citizens simultaneously stifled and segregated a growing minority by race, class and—most importantly—place. A conversation about America at the crossroads, The Price of Paradise is a multilayered exploration of the legal, economic and cultural forces that contribute to the squeeze on the middle class, the hidden dangers of growing income and wealth inequality and the literature on how growth and consumption patterns are environmentally unsustainable.American communities are facing chronic problems: fiscal stress, urban decline, environmental sprawl, mass incarceration, political isolation, disproportionate foreclosures and severe public health risks. In The Price of Paradise, David Troutt argues that it is a lack of mutuality in our local decision making that has led to this looming crisis facing cities and local governments. Arguing that there are structural flaws in the American dream, Troutt investigates the role that place plays in our thinking and how we have organized our communities to create or deny opportunity. Legal rules and policies that promoted mobility for most citizens simultaneously stifled and segregated a growing minority by race, class and—most importantly—place. A conversation about America at the crossroads, The Price of Paradise is a multilayered exploration of the legal, economic and cultural forces that contribute to the squeeze on the middle class, the hidden dangers of growing income and wealth inequality and the literature on how growth and consumption patterns are environmentally unsustainable.
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    DOI: 10.18574/nyu/9780814724897.001.0001
    URL: https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9780814724897
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    The Post-Racial Mystique : Media and Race in the Twenty-First Century (2014)
    New York, NY : New York University Press | Berlin : Walter de Gruyter GmbH
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    ISBN: 9780814770788
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource , 16 black and white illustrations
    Series Statement: Critical Cultural Communication 25
    DDC: 302.230973
    Abstract: Despite claims frompundits and politicians that we now live in a post-racial America, people seemto keep finding ways to talk about race—from celebrations of the inaugurationof the first Black president to resurgent debates about policeprofiling, race and racism remain salient features of our world. When facedwith fervent anti-immigration sentiments, record incarceration rates of Blacks andLatinos, and deepening socio-economic disparities, a new question has eruptedin the last decade: What does being post-racial mean?The Post-Racial Mystique exploreshow a variety of media—the news, network television, and online, independent media—debate,define and deploy the term “post-racial” in their representations of Americanpolitics and society. Using examples from both mainstream and niche media—from prime-time television series to specialty Christian media and audienceinteractions on social media—Catherine Squires draws upon a variety ofdisciplines including communication studies, sociology, political science, andcultural studies in order to understand emergent strategies for framingpost-racial America. She reveals the ways in which media texts cast U.S.history, re-imagine interpersonal relationships, employ statistics, andinventively redeploy other identity categories in a quest to formulatedifferent ways of responding to race.
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    DOI: 10.18574/nyu/9780814762899.001.0001
    URL: https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9780814770788
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    Border Politics : Social Movements, Collective Identities, and Globalization (2014)
    New York, NY : New York University Press | Berlin : Walter de Gruyter GmbH
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    ISBN: 9781479806799
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource
    DDC: 306.2
    Abstract: In the current historical moment borders have taken on heightened material and symbolic significance, shaping identities and the social and political landscape. “Borders”—defined broadly to include territorial dividing lines as well as sociocultural boundaries—have become increasingly salient sites of struggle over social belonging and cultural and material resources. How do contemporary activists navigate and challenge these borders? What meanings do they ascribe to different social, cultural and political boundaries, and how do these meanings shape the strategies in which they engage? Moreover, how do these social movements confront internal borders based on the differences that emerge within social change initiatives?Border Politics, edited by Nancy A. Naples and Jennifer Bickham Mendez, explores these important questions through eleven carefully selected case studies situated in geographic contexts around the globe. By conceptualizing struggles over identity, social belonging and exclusion as extensions of border politics, the authors capture the complex ways in which geographic, cultural, and symbolic dividing lines are blurred and transcended, but also fortified and redrawn. This volume notably places right-wing and social justice initiatives in the same analytical frame to identify patterns that span the political spectrum. Border Politics offers a lens through which to understand borders as sites of diverse struggles, as well as the strategies and practices used by diverse social movements in today’s globally interconnected world. Contributors: Phillip Ayoub, Renata Blumberg, Yvonne Braun, Moon Charania, Michael Dreiling, Jennifer Johnson, Jesse Klein, Andrej Kurnik, Sarah Maddison, Duncan McDuie-Ra, Jennifer Bickham Mendez, Nancy A. Naples, David Paternotte, Maple Razsa, Raphi Rechitsky, Kyle Rogers, Deana Rohlinger, Cristina Sanidad, Meera Sehgal, Tara Stamm, Michelle Téllez...
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    DOI: 10.18574/nyu/9781479898992.001.0001
    URL: https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9781479806799
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    URL: https://doi.org/10.18574/nyu/9781479858170.001.0001
    URL: https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9781479858170
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    Breaking the Tongue : Language, Education, and Power in Soviet Ukraine, 1923-1934 (2014)
    Toronto : University of Toronto Press | Berlin : Walter de Gruyter GmbH
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    ISBN: 9781442619050
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource , 1 map
    Edition: [2018]
    DDC: 306.440947709/042
    Abstract: In the 1920s and early 1930s, the Communist Party embraced a policy to promote national consciousness among the Soviet Union’s many national minorities as a means of Sovietizing them. In Ukraine, Ukrainian-language schooling, coupled with pedagogical innovation, was expected to serve as the lynchpin of this social transformation for the republic’s children.The first detailed archival study of the local implications of Soviet nationalities policy, Breaking the Tongue examines the implementation of the Ukrainization of schools and children’s organizations. Matthew D. Pauly demonstrates that Ukrainization faltered because of local resistance, a lack of resources, and Communist Party anxieties about nationalism and a weakening of Soviet power – a process that culminated in mass arrests, repression, and a fundamental adjustment in policy.
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    DOI: 10.3138/9781442619050
    URL: https://doi.org/10.3138/9781442619050
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