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    Hoboken : Taylor and Francis
    ISBN: 9781138018754
    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource (263 p)
    Parallel Title: Print version Jazz Sells: Music, Marketing, and Meaning
    DDC: 306.4/84250973
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    Abstract: Jazz Sells: Music, Marketing, and Meaning examines the issues of jazz, consumption, and capitalism through advertising. On television, on the Internet, in radio, and in print, advertising is a critically important medium for the mass dissemination of music and musical meaning. This book is a study of the use of the jazz genre as a musical signifier in promotional efforts, exploring how the relationship between brand, jazz music, and jazz discourses come together to create meaning for the product and the consumer. At the same time, it examines how jazz offers an invaluable lens through which to
    Description / Table of Contents: Cover; Title; Copyright; Dedication; CONTENTS; List of Illustrations; Series Foreword; Preface; Acknowledgments; 1 Introduction; Mass Production, Mass Mediation, and the Emergence of the Consumer-Citizen; Music in Advertising: An Overview; Studying Music and Advertising: Reviewing the Field; Theoretical Framework; Methodology; Chapter Outline; 2 Pimps, Rebels, and Volkswagens; "You've Taken My Blues and Gone": Jazz, Commerce, and the Culture Industries 1920-1960; "You My Audience . . .:" Charles Mingus, Dissent, and Commodification; Mingus Sells Jettas: Improvisation and the Open Road
    Description / Table of Contents: Conclusion3 Autoeroticism: Sex, Cars, and Jazz; Joyrides, Jazzy Tendencies, and the Decline of America; American Dreams: Jazz, Cars, and Consumerism; Jazz Economies: Plymouth, Honda, and Globalization; "This is My Car:" Chrysler, Pop-Jazz, and Diana Krall; Conclusion; 4 The New Sound of Cola; Developing the New Sound of Cola; "Coming Together": Diversity and the Omni-American Cola; "Jazz Up Your Life": Pepsi Jazz and Consumer Agency; Conclusion: Indulge Yourself With Jazz; 5 "The Bank of Music"; Buying Goodwill: Sponsorship as Advertising; A Brief History of Jazz Festivals
    Description / Table of Contents: Comfort and Community: Jazz Festivals as Brand FitCorporate Social Responsibility: Ethical Marketing, Marketing Ethics; Conclusion: Jazz Festivals and the Spectacle of Community; 6 Conclusion; Index
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    ISBN: 9781138831681
    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource (306 p)
    Parallel Title: Print version Production Studies, The Sequel! : Cultural Studies of Global Media Industries
    DDC: 791.45
    Keywords: Mass media and culture ; Motion pictures Production and direction ; Television Production and direction ; Electronic books ; Electronic books
    Abstract: Production Studies, The Sequel! is an exciting exploration of the experiences of media workers in local, global, and digital communities-from prop-masters in Germany, Chinese film auteurs, producers of children's television in Qatar, Italian radio broadcasters, filmmakers in Ethiopia and Nigeria, to seemingly-autonomous Twitterbots. Case studies examine international production cultures across five continents and incorporate a range of media, including film, television, music, social media, promotional media, video games, publishing and public broadcasting. Using the lens of cultural studies t
    Description / Table of Contents: Cover; Title; Copyright; CONTENTS; Preface; Note from the Cover Artist: "Changing the Guard: From 'Semper Fi Panavision' to 'Insurgent Crowd-Sourcing' "; I. Tools of the Trade; 1 I Like My Bots Like I Like My People: Weird, Mixed, Always Acting; 2 Performance, Labor, and Stardom in the Era of the Synthespian; 3 How Global Is Hollywood? Division of Labor from a Prop-Making Perspective; II. Being the Brand; 4 Working the Booth: Promotional Models and the Value of Affective Labor; 5 From Broadcast Design to 'On-Brand TV': Repositioning Expertise in the Promotional Screen Industries
    Description / Table of Contents: 6 Pop Stars Perform 'Gay' for the Male Gaze: The Production of Fauxmosexuality in Female Popular Music Performances and Its Representational ImplicationsIII. Production Pedagogies; 7 Craft, Creativity, Collaboration, and Connections: Educating Talent for Danish Television Drama Series; 8 Charity Appeals as 'Poverty Porn'? Production Ethics in Representing Suffering Children and Typhoon Haiyan Beneficiaries in the Philippines; 9 Group Writing for Post-Socialist Television; IV. Putting the Public Back in Public Service
    Description / Table of Contents: 10 Public Service as Production Cultures: A Contingent, Conjunctural Compact11 Invisible Workers in an Invisible Medium: An Ethnographic Approach to Italian Public and Private Freelance Radio Producers; 12 Detachment, Pride, Critique: Professional Identity in Independent Factual Television Production in Great Britain and Germany; 13 CBC ArtSpots and the Activation of Creative Citizenship; V. Transnational Circuits; 14 Avenues of Participation and Strategies of Control: Video Film Production and Social Mobility in Ethiopia and Southern Nigeria
    Description / Table of Contents: 15 From Experiencing Life to Life Experiences: Location Shooting Practices in Chinese and Taiwanese New Wave Cinemas16 The Crunch Heard 'Round the World: The Global Era of Digital Game Labor; VI. Redefining the Industry; 17 "What Actually Matters": Identity, Individualization, and Aspiration in the Work of Glossy Magazine Production; 18 The Trick of the Trades: Media Industry Studies and the American Comic Book Industry; 19 Co-Producing Content for Pan-Arab Children's TV: State, Business, and the Workplace
    Description / Table of Contents: 20 Keep Big Government out of Your Television Set: The Rhetoric of Self-Regulation before the Television CodeSelect Bibliography; List of Contributors; Index
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    ISBN: 9781138796911
    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource (201 p)
    Parallel Title: Print version Audience as Performer : The changing role of theatre audiences in the twenty-first century
    DDC: 306.4/84
    Keywords: Electronic books
    Abstract: 'Actors always talk about what the audience does. I don't understand, we are just sitting here.' Audience as Performer proposes that in the theatre, there are two troupes of performers: the actors and the audience. Although academics have scrutinised how audiences respond, make meaning and co-create while watching a performance, little research has considered the behaviour of the theatre audience as a performance in and of itself. This insightful book describes how an audience performs through its myriad gestural, vocal and paralingual actions, and considers the following questions: If the aud
    Description / Table of Contents: Cover; Half Title; Title Page; Copyright Page; Dedication; Table of Contents; Acknowledgements; Introduction; Do Audiences Perform?; Performer, Performance, Audience; Writings About Audiences; Listening to the Audience; Mainstream Theatre; Book Structure; Notes; References; Part I: Audience Performance; 1. Audience as Performer; From Empathy to Performance; The Audience's Audience; The Audience's Role; The Audience's Costume; The Audience's Preparation; The Performance; Laughter; Crying; Applauding; Listening; The Shuffle and the Fidget; The Walk-out; Restraints; Notes; References
    Description / Table of Contents: 2. Stage Etiquette (1800-1880)Historical Considerations; Stage Etiquette; The Audience's Audience; Character Roles; Followers; Audience Performing Styles; Audience Costume; The Audience Set and Lighting; Audience Performance; Laughter and Crying; Applause; Stamps, Cheers, Thumps, Roars, Catcalls and Waves; Dialogue and Singing; Whistles, Oaths and Groans; Eating, Chewing, Spitting and Smoking; Pre and Post-performance Discussions; Audience Text; Notes; References; 3. Theatre Etiquette (1880-2000); From the Limelight into the Shadows; Theatre Etiquette; The Galleryites; The Fashionables
    Description / Table of Contents: The Matinee Girl, the Stage-Door Johnny and the Tired Business ManGuest Performers; Props: The Hat; The Auditorium Fades to Black; Musical Audiences from the 1980s; Notes; References; Part II: Contemporary Audience Performance; Introduction to Part II; Note; References; 4. Audience as Critic; The Discussion; The Post-show Discussion; The Pleasure of Performing Critic; The Role of the Audience Critic in Previews; Digitising Critical Responses; Case Study Steppenwolf Theatre Company: Playing Critic in the Public Square; Steppenwolf Critics Live; Steppenwolf Critics Online; Notes; References
    Description / Table of Contents: 5. Audience as CommunityCommunity Houses; The House; Socialising in the House; Interior Decorating; Share Houses; New Houses; Case Study Signature Theatre Company: Building Communities; Notes; References; 6. Audience as Consumer; Esteem; The Tourist Audience; Audience as Consumer; The Pleasure of Purchasing; Ownership; Audience as Guest at the Theatrical Experience; Consuming the Right to Perform; Case Study Times Square: Self-Conscious Performance; Notes; References; 7. Audience as Co-creator; The Electric Air; Audience as Co-creator; Reciprocity; Leading and Following; Breathe as One
    Description / Table of Contents: Twenty-First-Century Audience Co-creationYouth Theatre; Immersive Theatre; Communal Theatre; One-Person Show; The Soliloquy; Creating a Scene; Case Study Shakespeare's Globe: Extending the Invitation; Notes; References; Conclusion: New Possibilities; Everything Old is New Again; Emerging Questions; New Possibilities; Notes; References; Contributors; Audience Members; Actors; Ushers/Front of House Managers/Merchandise Managers; Directors/Producers/Other Theatre Professionals; Appendix 1: Audience Interviews; Appendix 2: Questionnaire; Index
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    Hoboken : Taylor and Francis
    ISBN: 9781138020252
    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource (159 p)
    Parallel Title: Print version Re-Inventing the Media
    DDC: 302.23
    Keywords: Mass media policy ; Electronic books ; Electronic books
    Abstract: Re-Inventing the Media provides a highly original re-thinking of media studies for the contemporary post-broadcast, post-analogue, and post-mass media era. While media and cultural studies has made much of the changes to the media landscape that have come from digital technologies, these constitute only part of the transformations that have taken place in what amounts of a reinvention of the media over the last two decades. Graeme Turner takes on the task of re-thinking how media studies approaches the whole of the contemporary media-scape by focusing on three large, cross-platform, and transn
    Description / Table of Contents: Cover; Half Title; Title Page; Copyright Page; Dedication; Table of Contents; Acknowledgements; Introduction: Re-inventing the media; The decline of the mass media paradigm; The media and the state; The consequences of celebrity culture; Notes; Part I: Rethinking the media; 1. Rethinking media theory; Convergence; Mediatisation; Commercialisation, the public good and media power; Notes; 2. Entertainment, information and the 'culture of search'; News, entertainment and the public good; The commodification of information and the 'culture of search'; Conclusion; Notes
    Description / Table of Contents: Part II: The media and the nation-state3. The media, the nation and globalisation; Television and the nation-state; Globalisation, the media and modernity; Conclusion; Notes; 4. Rethinking media regulation; Privacy, journalism and the public interest; The media and democracy; Conclusion; Notes; Part III: The consequences of celebrity; 5. The celebrification of the media; Producing 'celebrity news'; The rise of the image; Gossip as news; Conclusion; Notes; 6. Intervening in the social: The function of celebrity culture; The ordinary celebrity; Reacting to reality TV
    Description / Table of Contents: Celebrity, status and a presence onlineConclusion; Notes; Conclusion: Teaching the re-invented media; The re-invented media: what has it become?; TV studies, new media studies and the divided curriculum; Unifying the divided curriculum; Conclusion; Bibliography; Index
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  • 5
    ISBN: 9781138783980
    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource (271 p)
    Series Statement: Regions and Cities
    Parallel Title: Print version Soft Spaces in Europe : Re-negotiating governance, boundaries and borders
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als Soft spaces in Europe
    DDC: 307.1/2094
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    Keywords: Electronic books ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Europa ; Metropolregion ; Raumordnung ; Grenzüberschreitende Regionalplanung
    Abstract: The past thirty years have seen a proliferation of new forms of territorial governance that have come to co-exist with, and complement, formal territorial spaces of government. These governance experiments have resulted in the creation of soft spaces, new geographies with blurred boundaries that eschew existing political-territorial boundaries of elected tiers of government. The emergence of new, non-statutory or informal spaces can be found at multiple levels across Europe, in a variety of circumstances, and with diverse aims and rationales. This book moves beyond theory to examine the practi
    Description / Table of Contents: Cover; Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; List of figures; List of tables; Contributors; Preface; PART I A conceptual framework for soft spaces; 1 Soft spaces, planning and emerging practices of territorial governance; PART II Soft spaces in France, Germany, the Netherlands and England; 2 'A good geography is whatever it needs to be': the Atlantic Gateway and evolving spatial imaginaries in North West England; 3 Governance arrangements in the Hamburg Metropolitan Region: between hard and soft institutional spaces; 4 The Sillon lorrain (Nancy, Metz, Epinal, Thionville)
    Description / Table of Contents: 5 Evolving regional spaces: shifting levels in the southern part of the Randstad6 Ashford and Cambridge - two Growth Areas, three soft spaces; PART III Cross-border soft spaces; 7 Soft spaces across the Fehmarn Belt: cross-border regionalism in practice; 8 Cross-border soft spaces of the Upper Rhine: overlapping initiatives from the Eurodistrict Strasbourg-Ortenau to the Trinational Metropolitan Region of the Upper Rhine; 9 Creating a space for cooperation: soft spaces, spatial planning and cross-border cooperation on the island of Ireland; PART IV Conclusions and outlook
    Description / Table of Contents: 10 Conclusion - what difference do soft spaces make?Index
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    Hoboken : Taylor and Francis
    ISBN: 9781138778108
    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource (228 p)
    Series Statement: Routledge Advances in Sociology
    Parallel Title: Print version Seeing Religion : Toward a Visual Sociology of Religion
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als Seeing religion
    DDC: 306.6
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    Keywords: Electronic books ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Religionssoziologie
    Abstract: The potential of visual research methods in the sociology of religion is vast, but largely untapped. This comes as a surprise, however, given the visual, symbolic, and material nature of religion and spirituality. Evidence of religious faith and practice is materially present in everything from clothing and jewelry to artifacts found in people's homes and workplaces. Not only is religion's symbolic and material presence palpable throughout society, it also informs attitudes, beliefs, and behaviors of countless people worldwide. Words-and-numbers approaches to social research, however, sometime
    Description / Table of Contents: Cover; Title; Copyright; Dedication; Contents ; List of images ; List of maps ; List of tables ; Preface ; Acknowledgements ; List of contributors; 1 Visual sociology and the sociology of religion ; 2 Exploring an urban ecology visually: spatial approaches to studying social contrasts along Germantown Avenue; 3 Mapping congregational responses to re-urbanization and gentrification ; 4 Seeing Islam in global cities: a spatial semiotic analysis; 5 Religious symbols on rearview mirrors: displays of faith or hopes for safe travel?
    Description / Table of Contents: 6 From backstage to front: the role of the vestry in managing clergy self-presentation7 Visual experiencing and communicating: visual sociology as a truly comprehensive experience; 8 Videographic analysis of religious and secular rituals: examples from a study on the International Holocaust Remembrance Day; 9 Visual ethics, feminist ethnography, and the study of Holocaust memorialization; 10 Reconfiguring stained glass: religion, domestic violence, and visual engagement; 11 Why study religion visually? ; Index
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    Hoboken : Taylor and Francis
    ISBN: 9781138928282
    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource (243 p)
    Series Statement: Routledge Library Editions: Social and Cultural Anthropology
    Parallel Title: Print version The Gift Economy
    DDC: 394
    Keywords: Electronic books
    Abstract: Until recently we have known more about gift giving practices in primitive societies than about those of industrial western society. In this book, first published in 1988, David Cheal shows that the process of present giving and receiving is a vital element in contemporary social life, relevant to some of the most important theoretical traditions in sociology, particularly those of Durkheim and Weber, and to the social constructionism of Peter Berger and Thomas Luckmann. This volume is the result of a major study of gift rituals carried out by David Cheal and his associates in which general th
    Description / Table of Contents: Cover; Half Title; Title; Copyright; Original Title; Original Copyright; Dedication; Contents; Preface; 1 Moral economy; 2 Tie-signs; 3 Transactions and relations; 4 Love culture; 5 Social reproduction; 6 Intimacy and community; 7 Gift games; 8 The social future; 9 Conclusion; Notes; References; Name index; Subject index
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    Hoboken : Taylor and Francis
    ISBN: 9780765680525
    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource (1469 p)
    Parallel Title: Print version Encyclopedia of American Folklife
    DDC: 398.0973/03
    Keywords: Electronic books
    Abstract: American folklife is steeped in world cultures, or invented as new culture, always evolving, yet often practiced as it was created many years or even centuries ago. This fascinating encyclopedia explores the rich and varied cultural traditions of folklife in America - from barn raisings to the Internet, tattoos, and Zydeco - through expressions that include ritual, custom, crafts, architecture, food, clothing, and art. Featuring more than 350 A-Z entries, ""Encyclopedia of American Folklife"" is wide-ranging and inclusive. Entries cover major cities and urban centers; new and established immig
    Description / Table of Contents: Cover; Half Title; Title; Copyright; Contents; Topic Finder; Contributors; Acknowledgments; Introduction; Volume 1; Adolescents; Aesthetics; African American Communities; Alaska; Allegheny Region; Altars; Amana; American Samoa; Amish, Nebraska; Amish, Old Order; Animals; Appalachia; Arab Communities; Archives and Libraries; Armenian Communities; Art Environments; Atlanta; Atlas; Automobiles; Baltimore; Banjo; Baptists, Old Regular; Barn Raising; Barns; Baskets and Basketry; Basque Communities; Belief; Bikers; Birth; Blue Ridge Region; Bluegrass Music; Blues; Body Modification and Tattooing
    Description / Table of Contents: Bodybuilders and Weight LiftersBosnian Communities; Boston; Boy Scouts; Branding; Brooklyn; Buddhists; Bulgarian Communities; Cajun Communities; Cape Cod; Cape Verdean Communities; Carnival; Carolina, Down East; Carpatho-Rusyn Communities; Catholic Charismatics; Catholics; Chain Letters; Charleston and Lowcountry South Carolina; Chicago; Chicano and Mexican Communities; Childhood; Children's Groups; Chinatowns; Chinese Communities; Christmas; Church of the Brethren; Cincinnati; Cleveland; Coastal Carolina Plain Region; Cockfighting; Communal Societies; Communication; Community and Group
    Description / Table of Contents: ConsumerismContext; Courtship; Cowboys; Craft; Creoles, Louisiana; Croatian Communities; Croatians, Louisiana; Cuban Communities; Cults and Rumor-Panics, Satanic; Cultural Register; Czech Communities; Dance, Liturgical; Dance, Secular; Danish Communities; Deaf Communities; Death and Funerals; Delmarva and the Eastern Shore Region; Delta, Mississippi River; Denver; Des Moines; Detroit; Dialect; Dialect Stories; Dominican Communities; Drama; Dress and Costume; Easter; Eastern Orthodox Christians; Education; El Paso; Environment; Estonian Communities; Ethnic and Immigrant Folklife
    Description / Table of Contents: Ethnography and FieldworkVolume 2; Family; Fans, Automobile Racing; Fans, Extreme Metal; Fans, Heavy Metal; Farmers; Feminism; Fetishes; Filipino Communities; Film and Video; Finnish Communities; Firefighters; Fishing Communities; Folk Art; Folk Festivals; Folk Music and Song; Folk Society; Folk Speech and Language; Folklife and Folk Culture; Folklife Organizations; Folklore; Folklorists; Foodways; Fourth of July and Juneteenth; Franco-American Communities; Fraternal Organizations; French Canadian Communities; Function and Functionalism; Gamblers and Gambling; Games, Drinking; Games and Toys
    Description / Table of Contents: GangsGangs, Youth; Gardens and Gardening; Gay Communities; Gay Fire Island; Gay San Francisco; Geography; German Communities; Germans, Great Plains; Gestures; Gospel Music; Goths; Gravemarkers; Great Plains Indians; Great Plains Region; Greek Communities; Grottoes; Guam; Gullah, or Geechee, Communities; Hair; Haitian Communities; Halloween; Hare Krishna; Harlem; Hasidim and Misnagidim (Haredim); Hawaiians, Native; Healing, Faith; Healing and Medicine; Hillbillies; Hindus; Hip-Hop; History and Heritage; Hmong Communities; Holidays; Hospitals; Houses; Houston; Humor; Hungarian Communities
    Description / Table of Contents: Hunting
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    ISBN: 9780415808392
    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource (301 p)
    Parallel Title: Print version Intersectionality
    DDC: 305.4201
    Keywords: Electronic books
    Abstract: Pursuing Intersectionality, Unsettling Dominant Imaginaries offers a sustained, interdisciplinary exploration of intersectional ideas, histories, and practices that no other text does. Deftly synthesizing much of the existing literatures on intersectionality, one of the most significant theoretical and political precepts of our time, May invites us to confront a disconcerting problem: though intersectionality is widely known, acclaimed, and applied, it is often construed in ways that depoliticize, undercut, or even violate its most basic premises. May cogently demonstrates how intersectionalit
    Description / Table of Contents: Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents ; Preface; Acknowledgments; Introduction: The Case for Intersectionality and the Question of Intersectionality Backlash; 1 What Is Intersectionality? Matrix Thinking in a Single-Axis World; 2 Intersectionality's Call to Break from Single-Axis Thinking: Still Unheard, Still Unanswered?; 3 Why Are Intersectionality Critiques All the Rage?; 4 Intersectionality-Now You See It, Now You Don't: Slippages in Intersectionality Applications; 5 Being "Biased" toward Intersectionality: A Call for Epistemic Defiance
    Description / Table of Contents: 6 Fostering an Intersectional Disposition: Strategies for Pursuing and Practicing IntersectionalityReferences ; Index
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    ISBN: 9780415638548
    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource (299 p)
    Edition: 2nd ed
    Series Statement: Contemporary Sociological Perspectives
    Parallel Title: Print version Gender Circuits, 2e : Bodies and Identities in a Technological Age
    DDC: 305.3
    Keywords: Electronic books
    Abstract: 〈P〉The new edition of 〈EM〉Gender Circuits〈/EM〉 explores the impact of new technologies on the gendered lives of individuals through substantive sociological analysis and in-depth case studies. Examining the complex intersections between gender ideologies, social scripts, information and biomedical technologies, and embodied identities, this book explores whether and how new technologies are reshaping what it means to be a gendered person in contemporary society. 〈/P〉
    Description / Table of Contents: Cover; Title; Copyright; Dedication; Table of Contents; List of Figures; Preface; Preview: Gendered Bodies and Identities in a Technological Age; Making Sense of Human Diversity; Theories of Difference; Understanding the Embodied Self as a Social Product; Making Sense of Embodied Identity; How Social Scripts Shape Selves; Why Gender is a Good Vantage Point for Inquiry; Gender is a Social Endeavor; Gender as Socially Constructed but Meaningful in Our Lives; Accounting for Gender Variation in Society; The Impact of Challenging Gender Norms; A New World Order: Life in a Technological Age
    Description / Table of Contents: Biomedical Technology as Mediator between Physical and Mental LifeInformation Technology as Mediator between Physical and Mental Life; Investigating the Impact of New Technologies; Case Study: Focus on Tattooing and Masculinity; Chapter 1 A Social History of Technology and Gender; A Sociological Approach to Analyzing Gender and Technology; Making Sense of Technology; A Brief History of Technology; Challenging Technological Progressivism; Theorizing Technology; Technology as Social; Technology and the Individual; Theorizing Gender and Technology Together
    Description / Table of Contents: How Technology Has Shaped Gender and Gender NonconformityTechnologies of Sex and Gender Formation; Technologies of Gender Conformity; Technologies of Gender Nonconformity; New Technologies, New Genders; Engaging in Sociological Analysis; Case Study: Focus on Bloomers and Nineteenth Century Womanhood; Case Study: Focus on Beauty and Twenty-first Century Womanhood; Chapter 2 Information Technologies and Gendered Identity Work; Exploring Virtual Worlds; The Internet as New Technology; Evaluating Information Technologies; Identity Work in Cyberspace; Bridging Online and Offline Identities
    Description / Table of Contents: Narrative Identity, Discourses-in-Practice and Discursive PracticesStorying Ourselves into Being; Re-storying Ourselves into New Ways of Being; Narrative Identity Online; The Impact of Online Activity on the Self; Individual and Collective Identity Development Online; Collective Identity Work Online: Negotiating Social Scripts; Reproducing and Rewriting Social Scripts; Reproducing Inequality Online; Navigating Gendered Identities and Bodies Online; Case Study: Focus on Trans* Organizing; Case Study: Focus on Social Networking and the Self
    Description / Table of Contents: Chapter 3 New Biomedical Technologies, New Scripts, New GendersNew Body Technologies; Technologies and the Body; The Social Body; Technology and Body Work; Somatechnics and Social Norms; Gendered Selves, Gendered Bodies; Biomedical Technologies and Gendered and Raced Bodies; Somatechnologies and Hyper-Normative Gender Scripts; A Sociological Perspective on the Meaning of Body Work; Somatechnologies and New Gender Scripts; The Complexities of Body Work; Case Study: Reproduction and the Gender of Medicine; Case Study: Sex, Gender, and their Diversity
    Description / Table of Contents: Review: Sociological Analyses of Gender and Technology
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    ISBN: 9781138843608
    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource (297 p)
    Series Statement: Routledge Library Editions: Folklore
    Parallel Title: Print version The Oral Style (RLE Folklore)
    DDC: 398
    Keywords: Electronic books
    Abstract: In this book, first published in 1990, Edgard Sienaert and Richard Whitaker offer the first English translation of Marcel Jousse's crucially important work, Le style oral. As the translators observe, this study fired the imagination of contemporary intellectuals in Paris soon after its publication and influenced the work of many. In this book, Jousse provides a thorough and detailed theoretical account of the compositional style of oral, as opposed to literate, authors, showing that the antithetical, balancing, formulaic quality of that style is deeply rooted in the psychological and even phys
    Description / Table of Contents: Cover; Half Title; Title Page; Copyright Page; Original Title Page; Original Copyright Page; Table of Contents; General Editor's Foreword; Translators' Preface; Introduction to the 1981 edition; Marcel Jousse on "Scientific Discovery"; Foreword; PART ONE THE ANTHROPOLOGICAL FOUNDATIONS OF ORAL STYLE; I The energetic explosion and the psycho-physiology of gesture; II Intervals between energetic explosions - physiological rhythm; III Reflex gesticulation and the mimicry of reception; IV The spontaneous revivification of past gestures
    Description / Table of Contents: V The voluntary semiological revivification of mimic gesturesVI Laryngo-buccal semiological gesticulation; VII The instinctively concrete character of semiological gesticulation; VIII The propositional gesture; IX Ethnic mental dispositions and propositional gestures: the psychology of translation; PART TWO THE ORAL STYLE; X The automatic repetition of a propositional gesture: parallelism; XI Rhythmic oral style; XII The instinctive mnemonic employment of rhythmic schemas; XIII Oral style, a ""living press""; XIV Oral composers; XV Mnemonic faculties in oral style milieux
    Description / Table of Contents: XVI Mnemotechnical devices within the rhythmic schemaXVII Mnemotechnical devices within the recitative; XVIII Mnemotechnical devices within a recitation; CONCLUSION; Notes; Index of Proper Names; Index of Technical Terms; Bibliography
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    ISBN: 9780765600752
    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource (270 p)
    Parallel Title: Print version The Danwei: Changing Chinese Workplace in Historical and Comparative Perspective
    DDC: 306.3/6/0951
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    Abstract: The danwei, or work unit, occupies a central place in Chinese society. To understand Chinese politics demands a better understanding of this system. This volume provides a systematic study of the danwei system and addresses a variety of questions from historical and comparative perspectives
    Description / Table of Contents: Cover; Half Title; Series Page; Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; Acknowledgments; Contributors; Introduction: The Changing Chinese Workplace inHistorical and Comparative Perspective; Part I. Danwei in Historical Perspective; 1. Minor Public Economy: The Revolutionary Origins of the Danwei; 2. From Native Place to Workplace: Labor Origins and Outcomes of China's Danwei System; 3. The Republican Origins of the Danwei: The Case of Shanghai's Bank of China; Part II. Danwei in Comparative Perspective; 4. Chinese Danwei Reforms: Convergence with the Japanese Model?
    Description / Table of Contents: 5. The Russian ""Village in the City"" and the Stalinist System of Enterprise Management: The Origins of Worker Alienation in Soviet State Socialism6. The Soviet Factory as Community Organizer; Part III. Danwei Under Reform; 7. Danwei: The Economic Foundations of a Unique Institution; 8. The Impact of the Floating Population on the Danwei: Shifts in the Patterns of Labor Mobility Control and Entitlement Provision; 9. Work Units and Housing Reform in Two Chinese Cities; Index
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    ISBN: 9781138776784
    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource (247 p)
    Parallel Title: Print version Producing Women : The Internet, Traditional Femininity, Queerness, and Creativity
    DDC: 305.4
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    Abstract: Producing Women examines the ways femininity is produced through new media. Michele White considers how women are constructed, produce themselves as subjects, form vital production cultures on sites like Etsy, and deploy technological processes to reshape their identities and digital characteristics. She studies the means through which women market traditional female roles, are viewed, and produce and restructure their gendered, raced, eroticized, and sexual identities. Incorporating a range of examples across numerous forms of media-including trash the dress wedding photography, Internet how-
    Description / Table of Contents: Cover; Title; Copyright; CONTENTS; List of Figures; Acknowledgments; Introduction: The Technologies of Producing Women: Femininity, Queerness, and the Crafted Monster; 1 Working eBay and Etsy: Selling Stay-at-Home Mothers; 2 Touching Feeling Women: Reborn Artists, Babies, and Mothers; 3 It's about "Creation, Not Destruction": Brides, Photographers, and Post-wedding Trash the Dress Sessions; 4 Dead White Weddings: Zombie Walk Brides, Marriages, and How-to Guides; 5 Never Cleaning Up: Cosmetic Femininity and the Remains of Glitter
    Description / Table of Contents: Afterword: A Show of Hands: Franken Polishes, Mannequin Hands, and #ManicureMondaySelected Bibliography; Index
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    Pages: Online-Ressource (223 p)
    Edition: 3rd ed
    Series Statement: Themes in World History
    Parallel Title: Print version Gender in World History
    DDC: 305.309
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    Abstract: Covering societies from classical times to the twenty-first century, Gender in World History is a fascinating exploration of what happens to established ideas about men, women, and gender roles when different cultural systems come into contact. The book breaks new ground to facilitate a consistent approach to gender in a world history context.Now in its third edition, the book has been thoroughly updated, including:expanded treatment of Africa under Islamic influence expanded discussion of southeast Asia a new chapter on contemporary Latin America representations of individual women engagement
    Description / Table of Contents: Cover; Title; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction; PART I Agricultural Societies; 1 The Traditional Framework: Agriculture, Patriarchy, Civilizations; 2 Early Contacts: Infl uences from Cultural Diversity; 3 Buddhism and Chinese Women; 4 Islamic Standards outside the Heartland: Changes and Continuities in India and Sub-Saharan Africa; 5 The Chinese Influence; Conclusion of Part I: Gender and Contacts in Agricultural Societies; PART II New Patterns of Contact, 1500-1900; 6 Europeans and Native Americans; 7 Men and Women amid British Imperialism in India
    Description / Table of Contents: 8 Western Infl uences and Regional Reactions: Polynesia and Africa9 Reform Movements and Gender: Beyond the Colonial Models; Conclusion of Part II: Gender Contact amid Rising World Trade; PART III The Contemporary World; 10 Immigration as Culture Contact; 11 New International Influences: Feminism and Marxism; 12 Contact and Retract: The Middle East in the Contemporary Era; 13 Latin America: The Role of Contacts in Basic Change; 14 Global Consumer Culture: The Question of Impact; 15 Globalization and Resistance; Conclusion of Part III: Gender and Contact in Modern Societies
    Description / Table of Contents: Epilogue: Big picture: From Patriarchy to New Debate: The Role of Contacts in the Evolution of GenderIndex
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    ISBN: 9781138939394
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    Pages: Online-Ressource (248 p)
    Series Statement: Psychology Revivals
    Parallel Title: Print version Working at the Interface of Cultures : Eighteen Lives in Social Science
    DDC: 303.48/2
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    Abstract: Behind the mask of objective science lie the dynamics of what happens to scientists who go to live and work in another culture. Those who work and study in an alien culture often find themselves changed in ways that affect their scientific work. How does this challenge, stimulate, provoke, suggest and inspire advances and novelty in their theories, methods and instruments?Originally published in 1997, each of the essays in this title explores these issues through the experiences of a distinguished practitioner, describing the process of intellectual growth and development. Chosen for their ext
    Description / Table of Contents: Cover; Half Title; Title Page; Copyright Page; Original Title Page; Original Copyright Page; Table of Contents; List of contributors; Preface; 1 What kind of game in a far-away forest?; 2 A natural experiment: Nature runs an untidy laboratory; 3 Always something new out of Africa; 4 Raised in a collectivist culture, one may become an individualist; 5 The Archimedes effect; 6 Indigenising Westernised Chinese psychology; 7 In search of my Brahman; 8 The making, unmaking and remaking of a psychologist; 9 Tales that wag the dog: Globalisation and the emergence of postmodern psychology
    Description / Table of Contents: 10 The double life of a bilingual: A cross-cultural perspective11 Crossing the Bosphorus: Toward a socially relevant and culturally sensitive career in psychology; 12 Cruising the world: A nomad in Academe; 13 Enculturation of a semi-alien: Journeyings in the construction and reconstruction of identity; 14 Bridging spiritual sojourns and social science research in native communities; 15 Two decades of chasing the dragon: A Canadian psychologist assesses his career in Hong Kong; 16 The Haji Baba of Georgetown; 17 An intercultural journey: The four seasons; Index
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    ISBN: 9781138798151
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    Pages: Online-Ressource (281 p)
    Parallel Title: Print version Planning and LGBTQ Communities : The Need for Inclusive Queer Spaces
    DDC: 306.76/6
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    Abstract: Although the last decade has seen steady progress towards wider acceptance of lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgendered, and queer (LGBTQ) individuals, LGBTQ residential and commercial areas have come under increasing pressure from gentrification and redevelopment initiatives. As a result many of these neighborhoods are losing their special character as safe havens for sexual and gender minorities. Urban planners and municipal officials have sometimes ignored the transformation of these neighborhoods and at other times been complicit in these changes. Planning and LGBTQ Communities brings together
    Description / Table of Contents: Cover; Half Title; Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; List of Figures and Tables; List of Contributors; Acknowledgments; 1 Why Plan for the LGBTQ Community?; Part I Planning and LGBTQ Populations in Traditional Gay Neighborhoods; Introduction to Part I; 2 Gay Commercial Districts in Chicago and the Role of Planning; 3 The Dallas Way: Property, Politics, and Assimilation; 4 Fractures and Fissures in 'Post-Mo' Washington, DC: The Limits of Gayborhood Transition and Diffusion; Part II Planning and LGBTQ Populations Outside the Gay Village; Introduction to Part II
    Description / Table of Contents: 5 Thinking Beyond Exclusionary Gay Male Spatial Frames in the Developing World6 The Pervasiveness of Hetero-Sexism and the Experiences of Queers in Everyday Space: The Case of Cambridge, Massachusetts; 7 Understanding LGBTQ-Friendly Neighborhoods in the American South: The Trade-off Between Visibility and Acceptance; Part III Expanding Planning Horizons: Recognizing LGBTQ Intersectionality; Introduction to Part III; 8 Finding Transformative Planning Practice in the Spaces of Intersectionality; 9 Southern Discomfort: In Search of the LGBT-Friendly City
    Description / Table of Contents: 10 Queer Cosmopolis: The Evolution of Jackson Heights11 Lesbian Spaces in Transition: Insights from Toronto and Sydney; Part IV Linking Planning and LGBTQ Activist Groups to Ensure Service Delivery; Introduction to Part IV; 12 Act Up versus Straighten Up: Public Policy and Queer Community-Based Activism; 13 Place/Out: Planning for Radical Queer Activism; 14 The Racial Politics of Precarity: Understanding Ethno-Specific AIDS Service Organizations in Neoliberal Times; Part V Conclusions; 15 Beyond Queer Space: Planning for Diverse and Dispersed LGBTQ Populations; Index
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    ISBN: 9780415744492
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    Pages: Online-Ressource (223 p)
    Edition: Online-Ausg.
    Parallel Title: Print version Events and Sustainability
    DDC: 394.2
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    Abstract: Increasing concerns over climate and environmental change, the global economic and financial crisis and impacts on host communities, audiences, participants and destinations has reinforced the need for more sustainable approaches to events. Sustainability now features as part of the bid process for many mega-events, such as the Olympic Games, as well as significant regional and local events, where the event organisers are required by funding bodies and governments to generate broader outcomes for the locality. This book is the first to offer students a comprehensive introduction to the full ra
    Description / Table of Contents: Cover; Title Page; Copyright Page; Dedication Page; Table of Contents; List of figures; List of tables; List of boxes; About the authors; Preface; 1 Introduction to sustainable events; Why develop sustainable events?; What is sustainable development?; What is sustainability?; Sustainable events; Events and economic, social and environmental impacts; Event impact standards and guides; Sustainable event stakeholders; The structure of this book; Chapter summary; Case study: Greening a music festival; Part I The events context
    Description / Table of Contents: 2 The internal and external environment for sustainable event organisersIntroduction; The internal environment of an event; Scope of the event; Understanding the internal and external environment of an event; Event stakeholders; Constraints on event sustainability; Chapter summary; Case study: The International Sailing Federation World Championships, Fremantle 2011; 3 Sustainable events and public policy; Introduction; Why do governments get involved in events?; Government approaches to involvement in events; Events and government policy domains; Sustainable events policy
    Description / Table of Contents: The role of politics within eventsChapter summary; Case study: Subvention in Malaysia's convention industry; 4 Sustainable events and urban regeneration; Introduction; Why do governments use events for regeneration?; Event-led and event-themed regeneration; Outside physical regeneration; Sustainable event regeneration; The dark side of event-led regeneration; Chapter summary; Case study: The impacts of urban regeneration for the XIX Commonwealth Games, Delhi 2010; Part II Impacts of sustainable events; 5 Economic impacts of events; Introduction
    Description / Table of Contents: Positive and negative economic impacts of eventsEstimating economic impact of events; Towards sustainable events economic evaluation; Chapter summary; Case study: Meta-analysis of 18 major events in New Zealand; 6 Environmental impacts of events; Introduction; What is 'the environment'?; What does 'environmental impact' mean?; Types of impact; Measuring environmental impacts; Managing environmental impacts; Chapter summary; Case study: Peats Ridge Festival, Glenworth Valley, Australia; 7 Socio-cultural impacts of events; Introduction; Measuring socio-cultural impacts; Social capital
    Description / Table of Contents: Community perceptions of eventsWhat do events mean to communities?; Chapter summary; Case study: Community relevance at Bluesfest Blues and Roots Festival, Byron Bay; 8 Delivering the sustainable event; Introduction; Delivering economic sustainability; Delivering socio-cultural sustainability; Delivering environmental sustainability; Delivering a holistically sustainable event; Systems thinking; Key attributes of systems thinking; Chapter summary; Case study: London 2012 Olympic Games - delivering a sustainable event; Part III Logistics of sustainable events
    Description / Table of Contents: 9 Employment, volunteering and sustainable events
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    ISBN: 9781138857063
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    Pages: Online-Ressource (170 p)
    Series Statement: Routledge Studies in Emerging Societies
    Parallel Title: Print version Critical Theory After the Rise of the Global South : Kaleidoscopic Dialectic
    DDC: 303.48/2
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    Abstract: After the end of Euro-American hegemony and the return of the multi-centric world, Eurocentrism in philosophy and the social sciences has come under attack. However, no real alternative has been proposed. This provides an opportunity to reassess the philosophy of the social sciences that has been developed in the West. This book argues that the re-emergence of a multi-centric world allows the Euro-centric social sciences in general, and critical theory in particular, to finally disengage from countless paradoxes and impasses by which they have heretofore been hindered. The author presents a so
    Description / Table of Contents: Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; Introduction: The Reconfiguration of the World; PART I Eurocentric Theory; 1 Explanation; 2 Understanding; 3 Dialectic; PART II Kaleidoscopic Dialectic; 4 Configurations; 5 Global Hermeneutics; 6 Dialectical Critique; Outlook; Bibliography; Index
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    ISBN: 9780415855464
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    Pages: Online-Ressource (403 p)
    Parallel Title: Print version The Routledge Reader on the Sociology of Music
    DDC: 306.4/842
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    Abstract: The Routledge Reader on the Sociology of Music offers the first collection of source readings and new essays on the latest thinking in the sociology of music. Interest in music sociology has increased dramatically over the past decade, yet there is no anthology of essential and introductory readings. The volume includes a comprehensive survey of the field's history, current state and future research directions. It offers six source readings, thirteen popular contemporary essays, and sixteen fresh, new contributions, along with an extended Introduction by the editors. The Routledge Reader on th
    Description / Table of Contents: Cover; Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; PREFACE; ACKNOWLEDGMENTS; Introduction: Music and the Sociological Imagination- Pasts and Prospects; Section I Source Readings: Forerunners and Founding Figures; Chapter 1 The Origin and Function of Music; Chapter 2 Psychological and Ethnological Studies on Music; Chapter 3 Rational and Social Foundations of Music; Chapter 4 Musical Taste and How it is Formed; Chapter 5 Making Music Together: A Study in Social Relationship; Chapter 6 Sociology of Music; Section II Approaches, Sites, and Debates; A The Music Itself
    Description / Table of Contents: Chapter 7 Music as Social MeaningChapter 8 Music, the Body, and Signifying Practice; Chapter 9 Music and the Sociological Gaze; B Creation; Chapter 10 Ethnography and Interaction; Chapter 11 Performance Perspectives; Chapter 12 Production Perspectives; C Consumption; Chapter 13 Identity: Music, Community, and Self; Chapter 14 Taste as Distinction; Chapter 15 Taste as Performance; Section III Politics, Social Issues, and Musical Cultures; Chapter 16 Resistance and Social Movements; Chapter 17 Gender and Sexuality; Chapter 18 Hip Hop and Race
    Description / Table of Contents: Chapter 19 Cultural Globalization: Pop-Rock and Musical CosmopolitanismChapter 20 Music Criticism and Taste Cultures; Chapter 21 Art Music and Social Class; Chapter 22 Cityscapes; Chapter 23 The Body and Dance; Section IV Industries and Institutions; Chapter 24 Recorded Music; Chapter 25 Live Music; Chapter 26 Cultural Policy and the Creative Industries; Chapter 27 Copyright; Section V Technology and Mediation; Chapter 28 Instruments and Innovation; Chapter 29 Radio; Chapter 30 Music and the Moving Image: A Case Study of Hans Zimmer; Chapter 31 Digitalization; Section VI New Directions
    Description / Table of Contents: Chapter 32 After AdornoChapter 33 Bourdieu and Beyond; Chapter 34 Mediation Theory; Chapter 35 From Signification to Affect; LIST OF CONTRIBUTORS; INDEX
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    ISBN: 9780898624151
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    Pages: Online-Ressource (272 p)
    Parallel Title: Print version Postmodernism And Social Inquiry
    DDC: 301.01
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    Abstract: First published in 1994. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company
    Description / Table of Contents: Cover; Half Title; Title; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; CHAPTER 1. Postmodernism in the Social Sciences; PART I POSTMODERN THEORIES OF SOCIETY; CHAPTER 2. Foucault, Postmodernism, and Social Theory; CHAPTER 3. Postmodernism and Antifoundationalism; CHAPTER 4. North American Theories of Postmodern Culture; CHAPTER 5. Postmodernism and Feminism; CHAPTER 6. The Future of Social Theory and the Limits of Postmodern Critique; PART II POSTMODERN RESEARCH METHODS; CHAPTER 7. Semiotics and Postmodernism; CHAPTER 8. Postmodernism and Deconstructionism
    Description / Table of Contents: CHAPTER 9. Ethnographic Trends in the Postmodern EraCHAPTER 10. The Postmodernism That Failed; Index
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    ISBN: 9780415576857
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    Pages: Online-Ressource (185 p)
    Parallel Title: Print version The Life of Lines
    DDC: 301
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    Abstract: To live, every being must put out a line, and in life these lines tangle with one another. This book is a study of the life of lines. Following on from Tim Ingold's groundbreaking work Lines: A Brief History, it offers a wholly original series of meditations on life, ground, weather, walking, imagination and what it means to be human.In the first part, Ingold argues that a world of life is woven from knots, and not built from blocks as commonly thought. He shows how the principle of knotting underwrites both the way things join with one another, in walls, buildings and bodies, and the composit
    Description / Table of Contents: Cover; Half Title; Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; List of illustrations; Preface; Part I: Knotting ; 1. Line and blob; 2. Octopuses and anemones; 3. A world without objects; 4. Materials, gesture, sense and sentiment; 5. Of knots and joints; 6. Wall; 7. The mountain and the skyscraper; 8. Ground; 9. Surface; 10. Knowledge; Part II: Weathering; 11. Whirlwind; 12. Footprints along the path; 13. Wind-walking; 14. Weather-world; 15. Atmosphere; 16. Ballooning in smooth space; 17. Coiling over; 18. Under the sky; 19. Seeing with sunbeams; 20. Line and colour; 21. Line and sound
    Description / Table of Contents: Part III: Humaning22. To human is a verb; 23. Anthropogenesis; 24. Doing, undergoing; 25. The maze and the labyrinth; 26. Education and attention; 27. Submission leads, mastery follows; 28. A life; 29. In-between; 30. The correspondence of lines; References; Index
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    ISBN: 9781138855809
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    Pages: Online-Ressource (117 p)
    Edition: 2nd ed
    Series Statement: Framing 21st Century Social Issues
    Parallel Title: Print version Outsourcing the Womb : Race, Class and Gestational Surrogacy in a Global Market
    DDC: 306.874/3
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    Abstract: Through case studies, Outsourcing the Womb, Second Edition provides a critical analysis and global tour of the international surrogacy landscape in Egypt, India, China, Japan, Israel, Ukraine, the European Union and the United States. By providing a comparative analysis of countries that have very different policies, this book disentangles the complex role that race, religion, class inequality, legal regimes, and global capitalism play in the gestational surrogacy market. This book provides an intersectional frame of analysis in which multiple forms of social inequality and power differences b
    Description / Table of Contents: Cover; Half Title; Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; Preface; Acknowledgments; I. The Global Womb; II. Racism, Capitalism, and Reproductive Labor; III. Becoming a Gestational Surrogate; IV. Google Babies: The Global Market in Eggs and Sperm; V. Egypt and Israel: Religious Law and Regulatory Regimes; VI. India: A Global Baby Factory; VII. Asian Surrogacy Markets: China, Japan, and South Korea; VIII. The European Union: Bioethics, Family Law and Surrogate Orphans; IX. Reproductive Justice and Reproductive Liberty; References; Glossary/Index
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    ISBN: 9781138854154
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    Pages: Online-Ressource (287 p)
    Series Statement: Routledge Library Editions: Economic Geography
    Series Statement: Routledge Library Editions: Economic Geography Ser.
    Parallel Title: Print version Return Migration and Regional Economic Problems (Routledge Library Editions: Economic Geography)
    DDC: 304.8
    Keywords: Return migration -- Case studies -- Congresses ; Foreign workers -- Case studies -- Congresses ; Repatriation -- Case studies -- Congresses ; Regional economics -- Case studies -- Congresses ; Electronic books ; Electronic books
    Abstract: 〈P〉This book, originally published in 1986, based on extensive original research, presents many findings on the phenomenon of return migration and on its impact on regional economic development. It remains the only study of its kind. International in scope, the book includes chapters on return migration in Italy, Portugal, Greece, Ireland, Jordan, Canada, Jamaica, Algeria and the Middle East. 〈/P〉
    Description / Table of Contents: Cover; Half Title; Title Page; Copyright Page; Original Title Page; Original Copyright Page; Table of Contents; Preface; 1. RETURN MIGRATION AND REGIONAL ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT: AN OVERVIEW; 2. GASTARBEITER GO HOME: RETURN MIGRATION AND ECONOMIC CHANGE IN THE ITALIAN MEZZOGIORNO; 3. THE OCCUPATIONAL RESETTLEMENT OF RETURNING MIGRANTS AND REGIONAL DEVELOPMENT: THE CASE OF FRIULI-VENEZIA GIULIA, ITALY; 4. LAND TENURE, RETURN MIGRATION AND RURAL CHANGE IN THE ITALIAN PROVINCE OF CHIETI; 5. THE ECONOMIC IMPACT OF RETURN MIGRATION IN CENTRAL PORTUGAL
    Description / Table of Contents: 6. RETURN MIGRATION AND REGIONAL CHARACTERISTICS: THE CASE OF GREECE7. THE READJUSTMENT OF RETURN MIGRANTS IN WESTERN IRELAND; 8. RETURN MIGRATION AND URBAN CHANGE: A JORDANIAN CASE STUDY; 9. THE IMPACT OF RETURN MIGRATION IN RURAL NEWFOUNDLAND; 10. IMPLICATIONS OF RETURN MIGRATION FROM THE UNITED KINGDOM FOR URBAN EMPLOYMENT IN KINGSTON, JAMAICA; 11. RETURN MIGRATION TO ALGERIA: THE IMPACT OF STATE INTERVENTION; 12. BRIDGING THE GULF: THE ECONOMIC SIGNIFICANCE OF SOUTH ASIAN MIGRATION TO AND FROM THE MIDDLE EAST; Index
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    ISBN: 9781138779662
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    Pages: Online-Ressource (271 p)
    Parallel Title: Print version Asian Religions, Technology and Science
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    DDC: 201.65095
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    Abstract: Over the past five decades, the field of religion-and-science scholarship has experienced a considerable expansion. This volume explores the historical and contemporary perspectives of the relationship between religion, technology and science with a focus on South and East Asia. These three areas are not seen as monolithic entities, but as discursive fields embedded in dynamic processes of cultural exchange and transformation. Bridging these arenas of knowledge and practice traditionally seen as distinct and disconnected, the book reflects on the ways of exploring the various dimensions of the
    Description / Table of Contents: Cover; Half Title ; Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; List of figures; Contributors; Acknowledgements; Introduction: Asian religions, technology and science; Notes; References; Part I: Asian religions and science; 1. "True facts of the world": media of scientific space and the transformations of cosmo geography in nineteenth-century Buddhist-Christian encounters; Introduction; Transformations of cosmo- geographical space in nineteenth- century Theravada-Buddhist Modernism and the early Buddhist-Christian
    Description / Table of Contents: Maps and globes: Buddhist Modernism in nineteenth-century Siam and the media of scientific spaceMedia of scientific space as immutable mobiles: the circulation of scientific facts and the nineteenth-century Buddhist Christia debates in Ceylon; Conclusion; Notes; References; 2. An illusion of conciliation: religion and science in Debendranath and Rabindranath Tagore; Introduction; Debendranath's natural theology; Rabindranath's creative evolutionism; Father, son, and scientistic spirit; The illusory conciliation of science and religion in the Tagorean mode; Notes; References
    Description / Table of Contents: 3. Vedic science, modern science and reasonIntroduction; Introduction: Vedic science; Stages in ISKCON's thinking about science; The Bhaktivedanta Institute and T.D. Singh (His Holiness Bhaktisvarupa Damodara Swami); Prophets facing backwards; Reflections: puzzles and perplexities; Notes; References and further reading; 4. Is the Earth round? Traditional cosmography and modern science in Jainism; Introduction; Jain cosmography; The academization and scientization of Jainism; Jambudweep: The Digambar Jain Institute of Cosmographic Research; Traditional cosmography meets modern science
    Description / Table of Contents: ConclusionNotes; References; 5. On 'science' in 'The Science of Happiness': the Japanese new religious movement Ko-fuku no kagaku, occult 'science' and 'spiritual technology'; Introduction; On the formation of the main concepts of Kōfuku no kagaku and its religio- historical setting; The official title of the movement and its background; 'Science'; Major fields of 'scientific' interests and the 'spiritual technology'; Conclusion; Notes; References; 6. The synthesis of religious and medical healing rituals in the Song; Introduction; Religious movements in the Song; Song exorcism rituals
    Description / Table of Contents: Medical reforms in the Song and YuanThe somatisation of possession in Song medical literature and examinations; Synthesizing religious and medical rituals in the Song and Yuan; Conclusion; Acknowledgement; Notes; References; Further reading; 7. Medical treatments described in the ritual texts of Kerala: interaction between religion and science; Introduction; The Vedas and their insights into scientific thinking; Does the Indian system of medicine, or Āyurveda, give importance to rituals during treatments?; Medical treatment dealt with in the early tantra manuals
    Description / Table of Contents: An introduction to the ritual texts of Kerala
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    Pages: Online-Ressource (415 p)
    Series Statement: Rethinking Globalizations
    Parallel Title: Print version Globalization Development and Social Justice : A propositional political approach
    DDC: 303.48/2
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    Abstract: Are there existing alternatives to corporate globalization? What are the prospects for and commonalities between communities and movements such as Occupy, the World Social Forum and alternative economies?Globalization Development and Social Justice advances the proposition that another globalization is not only possible, but already exists. It demonstrates that there are multiple pathways towards development with social justice and argues that enabling propositional agency, rather than oppositional agency such as resistance, is a more effective alternative to neoliberal globalization. El Khour
    Description / Table of Contents: Cover; Title Page; Copyright Page; Dedication; Table of Contents; List of tables; List of figures; Foreword; Preface; Acknowledgements; Abbreviations; 1 Introduction: infraglobalization; Subsumption; Subversion; Sub rosa subvention; How the book is organized; Notes; 2 Corporatist globalization: a world in its own image; Origin of the specious: a lexical note; Global shift; The empire strikes back: the 'neo-neo' strategic alliance and crisis capitalism; Globalization as empire and endgame; Financialization and capital accumulation: 'we're all finance capitalists now'
    Description / Table of Contents: Outlook - peak appropriation?People versus plutocracy; Conclusion; Notes; 3 Infraglobalization and the sub rosa: from another world is possible to many worlds already exist; Infrapolitics: the greatest story never told?; Rethinking power, hegemony and agency; 'Of human action but not of human design': informal order; Towards infrageographies of globalization; 'One no and many yeses': subventing sub rosa development; Epistemological strategies and implications; Conclusion; Notes; 4 Alternative ways of knowing: reframing globalization; The ontologization of globalization
    Description / Table of Contents: On metatheory, method and manifold multiplicityFrom worldviews to worlding; Sources of the ontological shift; A quantum social science?; Framing scale and space: the post-positivist production of space; Conclusion; Notes; 5 Paradox in paradise: participatory development and the social economy in Kerala, India; Why is Kerala significant?; The classical Kerala 'model'; Extending the gains: the PPC; Decentralization-for-development: the social economy and self help groups; Challenges and prospects: post PPC development challenges; The dark side of Kerala's success; Conclusion; Notes
    Description / Table of Contents: 6 ConclusionNotes; References; Index
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    ISBN: 9780131776968
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    Parallel Title: Print version Sociology for Music Teachers : Perspectives for Practice
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    Abstract: For upper level undergraduate and introductory graduate and doctoral courses in music education. Outlining the basic aspects, constructs and concepts relevant to understanding music teaching and learning from a sociological perspective, this volume introduces students to the discipline as a tool in understanding their own work. The text shows how certain academics in music, sociology and education have thought about the relationship of music to education, schooling and society and examines the consequences of such thinking for making instructional choices in teaching methods and repertoire sel
    Description / Table of Contents: Cover; Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; Acknowledgments and Dedication; Introduction: Why Look at Music Education from a Sociological Perspective?; The Purpose of This Book; The Book's Historical Frame; Chapter 1 The Performer and Teacher in You: A Matter of Identity; Introduction; Occupational Identities in Music; Early Identity Research on Musicians; The Aspiring Music Teacher; Some Basic Facts About Music Teaching as a Career; The Occupational Socialization of Music Students; Communities of Practice; School Music Teachers' Multiple Identities
    Description / Table of Contents: Chapter 2 Teaching as Work: What Educational Sociologists Tell UsIntroduction; The Concept of Occupational Socialization; Occupational Norms and Values; Our Social Role in the Workforce; Career Mobility and Status; Commitment to the Execution of Specific Work Tasks and Skills; Teachers as Staff Members in Public Schools: Selected Landmark Studies; Occupational Socialization and Subject Matter: The Main Source for Professionalism?; Chapter 3 Music Learning and Teaching as Socially Situated Acts; Introduction; Music as a School Subject
    Description / Table of Contents: Music Teachers as Bridge Builders Between Different CommunitiesSchool Communities and Music Communities: Three Sociological Perspectives; Macro, Micro, and Interactive Analyses in Their Application to Music and Music Education; Chapter 4 Music and Social Context: Macro, Micro, and Interactive Perspectives in Selected Texts on the Sociology of Music; Introduction; Weber and Adorno: Two Important Names Beyond Music; Other Texts on a Sociology of Music; Key Points in Comparing the Texts and Their Relevance to Music Education
    Description / Table of Contents: Chapter 5 Musical Meaning and Social Context: Thoughts by Selected Ethnomusicologists and Cultural TheoristsIntroduction; Music Between "culture" and "Culture": From Celebrating the American Folk Heritage and Popular Music to Rediscovering Grand Traditions; The Sociological Significance of Arguments About Music Education as Value Education; Finding Commonality in Diverse Values; Chapter 6 Sociology of Education: Major Theories and Their Connection to School Practice; Introduction; The Place of Education in Society: Selected Theories; Social Issues and the Nature of School Instruction
    Description / Table of Contents: Reaching an Ethnically and Racially Diverse Student BodySchools as Transmitters of Cultural Values; Education and Schooling as Equally Strong But Different Sources of Learning; Teaching with Knowledge of the Power Behind the Hidden Curriculum; Chapter 7 Application of Sociological Constructs in Education to Music Schooling; Introduction; Dealing with the Achievement Gap in Music: Bringing Together Informal and Formal Learning in Music; Learning a Coveted Craft; The Large Ensemble as an Important Component in Public School Music; The Hidden Curriculum in School Music
    Description / Table of Contents: Musical Skills and Knowledge as Cultural Capital
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    ISBN: 9781138854550
    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource (199 p)
    Parallel Title: Print version Integrating Mindfulness into Anti-Oppression Pedagogy : Social Justice in Higher Education
    DDC: 303.3720711
    Keywords: Critical pedagogy.. ; Mindfulness (Psychology) ; Oppression (Psychology) ; Social justice ; Study and teaching (Higher) ; Electronic books ; Electronic books
    Abstract: Drawing from mindfulness education and social justice teaching, this book explores an anti-oppressive pedagogy for university and college classrooms. Authentic classroom discussions about oppression and diversity can be difficult; a mindful approach allows students to explore their experiences with compassion and to engage in critical inquiry to confront their deeply held beliefs and value systems. This engaging book is full of practical tips for deepening learning, addressing challenging situations, and providing mindfulness practices in anti-oppression classrooms. Integrating Mindfulness int
    Description / Table of Contents: Cover; Title; Copyright; Dedication; CONTENTS; Preface; Acknowledgements; Permissions; 1 Mindful Anti-Oppression Pedagogy; 2 Bringing the Body Back In; 3 Recognizing and Unlearning Internalized Oppression; 4 Dismantling Privilege with Mindful Listening; 5 Reframing Student Resistance as Mindful Dissonance ; 6 Critiques and Challenges of Mindful Anti-Oppression Pedagogy; 7 Building Empowered, Compassionate Communities; Index
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    ISBN: 9781138826472
    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource (235 p)
    Series Statement: Routledge Approaches to History
    Parallel Title: Print version Beyond Memory : Silence and the Aesthetics of Remembrance
    DDC: 306
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    Abstract: Beyond Memory: Silence and the Aesthetics of Remembrance analyses the intricate connections between silence, acts of remembrance and acts of forgetting, and relates the topic of silence to the international research field of Cultural Memory Studies. It engages with the most recent work in the field by viewing silence as a remedy to the traditionally binary approach to our understanding of remembering and forgetting. The international team of contributors examine case studies from colonialism, war, politics and slavery from across the globe, as well as drawing examples from literature, philosop
    Description / Table of Contents: Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; List of figures; List of contributors; Introduction: remembering, forgetting and silence; PART I Silences beyond remembering and forgetting; 1 Colonial and postcolonial silences: listening to Kartini in the Netherlands; 2 Making museum objects: a silent performance of connection and loss in Solomon Islands; 3 History, silence and the detective in Alexandr Terekhov's Russian novel Kamennyi most; 4 Nostalgic histories of war: refugees in Austria-Hungary, 1914-2014; PART II The performativity of silence; 5 The many sounds of Heidegger's silence
    Description / Table of Contents: 6 Silence, remembering, and forgetting in Wittgenstein, Cage, and Derrida7 Cold War era silence: the movement of the graves of Soviet prisoners of war in northern Norway; 8 Strategic silence: political persuasion between the remembered and the forgotten; PART III Silence as an aesthetic phenomenon; 9 Between memory and silence, between family and nation: remembering the First World War through Digital Media; 10 Allegorical silence: The Plague as critical literacy act; 11 Negotiating memories and silences: museum narratives of transatlantic slavery in England
    Description / Table of Contents: 12 Shell shock, Gallipoli and the generation of silenceConcluding remarks: silence and social life; Index
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    ISBN: 9781138926882
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    Pages: Online-Ressource (243 p)
    Parallel Title: Print version Debating War : Why Arguments Opposing American Wars and Interventions Fail
    DDC: 303.6/60973
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    Abstract: What arguments have critics of American wars and interventions put forward, and what arguments do they currently employ? Thomas Jefferson, Henry Thoreau, John Calhoun, the Anti-Imperialist League, Herbert Hoover, Charles Lindbergh, Martin Luther King Jr., and Ron Paul (among others) have criticized proposals to intervene in other countries, enter wars, acquire foreign territory, and engage in a forward defense posture. Despite cogent objections, they have also generally lost the argument. Why do they lose?This book provides answers to these questions through a survey of oppositional arguments
    Description / Table of Contents: Cover; Half Title; Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; List of Illustrations; Acknowledgments; 1. Opposition to Wars and Interventions; Introduction; The Literature; Analyzing Arguments; Explanations for Why Oppositional Arguments Fail; Chapter Outline; Notes; 2. From the Early Republic to the Spanish-American War; Early Exemplars: Washington and Jefferson; Critics of the War of 1812; Critics of the Mexican-American War; The Spanish-American War and the Struggle to Subduethe Philippines; Summary Observations; Notes; 3. The Great War and World War II
    Description / Table of Contents: Critics of American Participation in the Great WarCritics of Participating in WWII; Summary Observations; Notes; 4. Arguments in the Cold War and Post-Cold War Eras; Critics of the Early Cold War; The Vietnam War; The Post-Cold War Era; Summary Observations; Notes; 5. Ron Paul: The Importance of Natural Order ; Paul's Foreign Policy Positions; Paul's Arguments; The Foundations of Paul's Views; Comparisons; Notes; 6. Noam Chomsky: Hegemony and manufactured consent; Chomsky's Policy Positions; Chomsky's Arguments; The Foundations of Chomsky's Views; Comparisons; Notes
    Description / Table of Contents: 7. Chalmers Johnson: The military empireJohnson's Foreign Policy Positions; Johnson's Arguments; Johnson's Fundamental Understanding; Comparisons; Conclusion; Notes; 8. Comparisons, Analysis and Conclusions; Survey and Comparisons of Arguments; Comparisons; Comparisons of Foundations and Goals; General Groupings of Critics; The Logic and Utility of Oppositional Arguments; Problems and Reasons for Lack of Success; Possible Generalizations; Conclusion; Notes; Bibliography; Index
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    Pages: Online-Ressource (296 p)
    Series Statement: Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering Series
    Parallel Title: Print version Energy Efficiency in the Urban Environment
    DDC: 303.48320973
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    Abstract: 〈P〉This text provides an integrated view of energy systems and urban planning, supported by extensive data, references, and case studies. Dealing mainly with cities in developing nations, the book looks at various energy sources, and the ways they can be integrated for sustainability, affordability, and overall efficiency. It presents case studies to show how concepts of urban energy efficiency are being implemented. It discusses green buildings, urban transportation systems, and explains ways to optimize them from an energy point of view. 〈/P〉
    Description / Table of Contents: Front Cover; Contents; List of Figures; List of Tables; Preface; Acknowledgements; About the Authors; Chapter 1: Energy-Efficient Quality of Life; Chapter 2: Energy Efficiency Strategies in Urban Planning of Cities; Chapter 3: Energy-Efficient Urban Areas: Theories and Green Rating Systems; Chapter 4: Energy-Efficient Informalisation; Chapter 5: Energy Generation Plants and Leakages of Energy in Urban Egypt; Chapter 6: Energy in Buildings; Chapter 7: Low Carbon Buildings; Chapter 8: Green Buildings; Chapter 9: Current Energy Leakages in Egyptian Buildings; Chapter 10: Future Prospects
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    ISBN: 9780873324229
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    Pages: Online-Ressource (272 p)
    Parallel Title: Print version Russian Folk Belief
    DDC: 398.0947
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    Abstract: A scholarly work that aims to be both broad enough in scope to satisfy upper-division undergraduates studying folk belief and narrative and detailed enough to meet the needs of graduate students in the field. Each of the seven chapters in Part 1 focuses on one aspect of Russian folk belief, such as the pagan background, Christian personages, devils and various other logical categories of the topic. The author's thesis - that Russian folk belief represents a ""double faith"" whereby Slavic pagan beliefs are overlaid with popular Christianity - is persuasive and has analogies in other cultures
    Description / Table of Contents: Cover; Half Title; Title Page; Copyright Page; Dedication; Table of Contents; Foreword; Preface; Part 1 Folk Beliefs about the Supernatural; 1. The Pagan Background; 2. Christian Personages; 3. The Devil; 4. Spirits of the House and Farmstead; 5. Spirits of the Forest, Waters, and Fields; 6. Russian Sorcery; 7. ""Spoiling"" and Healing; Part 2 Folk Narratives about the Supernatural; Legends, Fabulates, and Memorates; Creation Legends; Biblical Personages and Saints; Devils; The Domovoi and Other Domestic Spirits; Nature Spirits; Sorcerers and Witches; Notes; Bibliography; Subject Index
    Description / Table of Contents: Place Name IndexName Index; About the Author
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    ISBN: 9780415891684
    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource (199 p)
    Parallel Title: Print version Reading at a Crossroads? : Disjunctures and Continuities in Current Conceptions and Practices
    DDC: 302.2/2440285
    Keywords: Computers and literacy.. ; Books and reading ; Technological innovations.. ; Publishers and publishing ; Technological innovations.. ; Electronic publishing ; Electronic books
    Abstract: The Internet is transforming the experience of reading and learning-through-reading. Is this transformation effecting a radical change in reading processes as readers synthesize understandings from fragments across multiple texts? Or, conversely, is the Internet merely a new place to use the same reading skills and processes developed through experience with traditional print-based media? Are the changes in reading processes a matter of degree, or are they fundamentally new? And if so, how must reading theory, research, and instruction adjust? This volume brings together distinguished experts
    Description / Table of Contents: Cover; Title Page; Copyright Page; Dedication; Table of Contents; Preface; PART ONE Setting the Stage: The Big Picture; 1 A Brief History of Information Sources in the Late 20th and Early 21st Centuries (A Simulation); 2 Literacy and the Technologies of Knowing; 3 The Resistance to 21st-Century Reading; 4 Three Paradigms in Reading (Really Literacy) Research and Digital Media; 5 All Bets Are Off: How Certain Kinds of Reading to Learn on the Web Are Totally Different from What We Learned from Research on Traditional Text Comprehension and Learning from Text
    Description / Table of Contents: PART TWO The Nature of Reading (and Writing) Online6 Purposeful, Critical, and Flexible: Vital Dimensions of Online Reading and Learning; 7 From Computers and the Web to Mobile Devices and e-Texts: The Transition to Digital Reading Continues; 8 Reading at a Million Crossroads: Massively Pluralized Practices and Conceptions of Reading; 9 Reading and the Web: Broadening the Need for Complex Comprehension; 10 Building Coherence in Web-Based and Other Non-Traditional Reading Environments: Cognitive Opportunities and Challenges
    Description / Table of Contents: 11 Disequilibrium.edu: Negotiating New Relationships Between Online Reading and WritingPART THREE Instruction: Reading Education in the Digital Age; 12 "Now Is the Winter of Our Discontent": Shakespeare, Kuhn, and Instability in the Field of Reading Education; 13 Past, Present, and Future Conditions and Practices of Reading; 14 Neglected Areas of Instruction: Bad for Print, Worsefor the Internet; 15 We're Closing the Digital Divide: Now Let's Work on Closing the Teleological Divide; 16 The Functionality of Literacy in a Digital World; Index
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    ISBN: 9781138840621
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    Pages: Online-Ressource (241 p)
    Series Statement: Routledge Library Editions: Myth
    Series Statement: Routledge Library Editions: Myth Ser. v.2
    Parallel Title: Print version The Methods of the Gernet Classicists (RLE Myth) : The Structuralists on Myth
    DDC: 398
    Keywords: Centre Louis Gernet ; Electronic books ; Electronic books
    Abstract: The Gernet Centre was founded as a place where the structural method could be applied to the classics. 'Structuralists' attribute the survival, origin and function of myths to common crosscultural factors they identify as 'structures'. As this book, first published as The Structuralists on Myth in 1992 explains, these structures are bundles of information not obvious either to the narrator or to the listener. The bundles are collected features that reveal either the reasons for the survival of myths, or their origins, or their functions within their contexts. The structuralists consider themse
    Description / Table of Contents: Cover; Half Title; Title Page; Copyright Page; Original Title Page; Original Copyright Page; Dedication; Table of Contents; Series Editor's Foreword; Acknowledgments; Chapter One-The Structure of Myth; Chapter Two-Barthes: Myth as Meaningful Form; Chapter Three-Lévi-Strauss and the Problems of Oedipus; Chapter Four-Vernant: A Logic of the Equivocal; Chapter Five-Detienne: The Empirical Categories of Myth; Chapter Six-Vidal-Naquet: A Factotum of History; Chapter Seven-Loraux: The Myths of Death and Life; Chapter Eight-Gernet's Legacy: A French New Historicism
    Description / Table of Contents: Conclusion-The Place of the Gernet CenterSelected Bibliography; Index
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    Series Statement: Routledge Studies in Peace and Conflict Resolution
    Parallel Title: Print version Migration and Security in the Global Age : Diaspora Communities and Conflict
    DDC: 305.9
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    Abstract: This book is an interdisciplinary examination of several interconnecting aspects of migrant communities in the context of contemporary conflict and security. The book illustrates that within this globalised world, migrants have become key actors, living in the spaces between states, as well as within them. Arguing that migrants and their descendants are vital and complex constituencies for the achievement of security in this global age, the volume uses a number of case studies, including Palestinian, Sri Lankan, Irish and Somali diaspora communities, to explore the different ways that such gro
    Description / Table of Contents: Cover; Title Page; Copyright Page; Dedication; Table of Contents; Preface and Acknowledgements; Introduction; 1 Migration and globalisation; 2 Flight and fight: examining the long distance nationalists; 3 Tales of positive engagement: the long distance peace-builders; 4 Migration and the War on Terror; 5 Fusion cuisine: diasporas, food and conflict; 6 Troubled tours: diaspora tourism, homeland and remembrance; 7 Policy matters: migration and security in the twenty-first Century; Bibliography; Index
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    ISBN: 9781138841321
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    Pages: Online-Ressource (191 p)
    Series Statement: Themes in World History
    Parallel Title: Print version The Atlantic Slave Trade in World History
    DDC: 306.3/620997
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    Abstract: In The Atlantic Slave Trade in World History, Jeremy Black presents a compact yet comprehensive survey of slavery and its impact on the world, primarily centered on the Atlantic trade. Opening with a clear discussion of the problems of defining slavery, the book goes on to investigate the Atlantic slave trade from its origins to abolition, including comparisons to other systems of slavery outside the Atlantic region and the persistence of modern-day slavery. Crucially, the book does not ask readers to abandon their emotional ties to the subject, but puts events in context so that it becomes cl
    Description / Table of Contents: Cover; Half Title; Title Page; Copyright Page; Dedication; Table of Contents; Preface; List of Abbreviations; 1. Introduction; 2. The Beginnings of the Atlantic Slave Trade; 3. The Slave Trade Expands Greatly; 4. The Slave Trade at its Height; 5. Abolitionism; 6. After Slavery?; 7. Conclusions; Selected Further Reading; Index
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    ISBN: 9781138839298
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    Pages: Online-Ressource (435 p)
    Parallel Title: Print version Culture and Economy in the Age of Social Media
    DDC: 302.30285
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    Abstract: Understanding social media requires us to engage with the individual and collective meanings that diverse stakeholders and participants give to platforms. It also requires us to analyse how social media companies try to make profits, how and which labour creates this profit, who creates social media ideologies, and the conditions under which such ideologies emerge. In short, understanding social media means coming to grips with the relationship between culture and the economy. In this thorough study, Christian Fuchs, one of the leading analysts of the Internet and social media, delves deeply i
    Description / Table of Contents: Cover; Title Page; Copyright Page; Dedication; Table of Contents; List of Figures; List of Tables; 1 Introduction; PART I Theoretical Foundations; 2 Culture and Work; 3 Communication, Ideology, and Labour; PART II Social Media's Cultural Political Economy of Time; 4 Social Media and Labour Time; 5 Social Media and Productive Labour; PART III Social Media's Cultural Political Economy of Global Space; 6 Social Media's International Division of Digital Labour; 7 Baidu, Weibo, and Renren: The Global Political Economy of Social Media in China; PART IV Alternatives
    Description / Table of Contents: 8 Social Media and the Public Sphere9 Conclusion; References; Index
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    ISBN: 9781857285529
    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource (338 p)
    Parallel Title: Print version New Social Movements In Western Europe : A Comparative Analysis
    DDC: 303.484094
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    Abstract: First published in 1996. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company
    Description / Table of Contents: Cover; Half Title; Title; Copyright; Contents; Preface; Introduction; Part I. General Concepts and Basic Results; 1. National Cleavage Structures; 2. Institutional Structures and Prevailing Strategies; 3. Alliance Structures; 4. Social Movement Types and Policy Domains; 5. The Dynamics of Protest Waves; Part II. Elaborations; 6. The Political Construction of the Nuclear Energy Issue; 7. Gay Subcultures between Movement and Market; 8. The Cross-National Diffusion of Protest; 9. Outcomes of New Social Movements; Conclusion; Appendix: The Newspaper Data; Notes; References; Index
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    ISBN: 9781138810693
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    Pages: Online-Ressource (249 p)
    Edition: Online-Ausg.
    Series Statement: War, Politics and Experience
    Parallel Title: Print version Masquerades of War
    DDC: 303.6/6
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    Abstract: This collection explores the concepts and practices of masquerade as they apply to concepts and practices of war.The contributors insist that masquerades are everyday aspects of the politics, praxis, and experiences of war, while also discovering that finding masquerades and tracing how they work with war is hardly simple. With a range of theories, innovative methodologies, and contextual binoculars, masquerade emerges as a layered and complex phenomenon. It can appear as state deception, lie, or camouflage, as in the population-centric American warfare in Iraq that was sold as good for the lo
    Description / Table of Contents: Cover; Title Page; Copyright Page; Dedication; Table of Contents; List of figures; List of contributors; Acknowledgements; Introduction: All those masquerades and wars; PART I Genres of masquerade; 1 The armour of Hector: From the mediation of violence to its masquerade; 2 'Seems he a dove?': The masquerades of conscientious objection; 3 Drawing the line between violence and non-violence in Gandhi and Fanon: Deceits and conceits; 4 The foundational masquerade: Security as sociology of death; PART II International theaters of war and masquerade
    Description / Table of Contents: 5 Masquerading Maoists and the politics of securitization in India6 Syrian masquerades of war; 7 The fangs behind the mask: Everyday life in wartime Chechnya; 8 Masquerading genocide in Patricia McCormick's Never Fall Down: Rehearsing, restaging, remembering, and critiquing Pol Pot time; 9 Pain as masquerades/Masquerades as pain; PART III How the West masquerades war; 10 Enlisting Madison Avenue: Contemporary war masquerading as a communication enterprise; 11 Hiding in the light: Drawings of arms fairs
    Description / Table of Contents: 12 Research in the rape capital of the world: Multiple masquerades - a (semi) fictional account13 TerrorWars: Boston/Iraq; Index
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    ISBN: 9781138827103
    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource (262 p)
    Series Statement: Routledge Studies in Multimodality
    Parallel Title: Print version Multimodal Analysis in Academic Settings : From Research to Teaching
    DDC: 302.2
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    Abstract: This volume presents innovative research on the multimodal dimension of discourse specific to academic settings, with a particular focus on the interaction between the verbal and non-verbal in constructing meaning. Contributions by experienced and emerging researchers provide in-depth analyses in both research and teaching contexts, and consider the ways in which multimodal strategies can be leveraged to enhance the effectiveness of academic communication. Contributors employ both quantitative and qualitative analytical methods, and make use of state-of-the-art software for analyzing multimoda
    Description / Table of Contents: Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; Figures; Tables; Introduction; PART I Research Communications; 1 Disagreements in Plenary Addresses as Multimodal Action; 2 Contrastive Multimodal Analysis: Conference Plenary Lectures in English and in Spanish; 3 Intensifying Adverbs in Academic Spoken Discourse: A Contrastive Study Between English and Spanish; 4 Visual Communication in Applied Linguistics Conference Presentations; 5 A Multimodal Approach to Persuasion in Conference Presentations; PART II Classroom Applications
    Description / Table of Contents: 6 There Is More to Multimodality Than Discourse Features and Nonverbal Behaviors!7 Elaborating Explanations During OpenCourseWare Humanities Lectures: The Interplay of Verbal and Nonverbal Strategies; 8 Multimodality in Business Communication: Body Language as a Visual Aid in Student Presentations; 9 Assessing Multimodal Listening; 10 Teaching Learners How to Use Pragmatic Routines Through Audiovisual Material; Contributors; Index
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    Parallel Title: Print version On the Edge: Political Cults Right and Left
    DDC: 303.48/4
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    Abstract: This is the first book to document the extent of political cults on both the right and left and explain their significance for mainstream political organizations. The authors outline the defining characteristics of cults in general, and analyze the degree to which a variety of well-known movements fall within the spectrum of cultic organizations. The book covers such individuals and groups as Lyndon LaRouche, Fred Newman, Ted Grant, Marlene Dixon, the Christian Identity movement, Posse Commitatus, Aryan Nation, militias, and the Freemen. It explores the ideological underpinnings that predispos
    Description / Table of Contents: Cover; Half Title; Title; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction; Part One. The Nature of Cults; 1. Cults in Politics; 2. Groupthink, Big Brother, and Love Bombing; Part Two. Cults on the Right; 3. Christian Identity: A Heritage of Hate; 4. Soldiers of God; 5. The Travels of Lyndon LaRouche; Part Three. Therapy Cults and Politics; 6. Scientology, Maoism, and the Reevaluations of Harvey Jackins; 7. Fred Newman: Lenin as Therapist; 8. Synanon: Utopia as a Game; Part Four. Cults on the Left; 9. Marlene Dixon's Little Army; 10. Gerry Healy: Guru to a Star
    Description / Table of Contents: 11. The Lonely Passion of Ted Grant12. The Many Faces of Gino Perente; Conclusion. Politics as Religion; Notes; Index
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    ISBN: 9781138788725
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    Pages: Online-Ressource (301 p)
    Edition: Online-Ausg.
    Series Statement: Routledge Advances in Sociology
    Parallel Title: Print version International Migration and Ethnic Relations : Critical Perspectives
    DDC: 304.8
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    Abstract: Each day, in so many aspects of daily life, we are reminded of the significance of migration and ethnicity. This book is a critical contribution to the understanding of the phenomena of migration and ethnicity, from a Swedish vantage point looking outwards towards a European context. It presents current academic debates and gives a theoretical overview of nine key concepts in the field of ethnic and migrations studies, but it also exemplifies how these concepts could be used in analysing specific empirical cases. It explores the following concepts: ethnicity; migration; diaspora; citizenship
    Description / Table of Contents: Cover; Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; Notes on contributors; Introduction: critical perspectives on international migration and ethnic relations; 1 Ethnicity: the complexity of boundary creation and social differentiation; 2 Migration: sovereignty, borders and control; 3 Diaspora: relations and communities across borders; 4 Citizenship: rights, obligations and changing citizenship ideals; 5 Intersectionality: manifold opportunities to grasp the complexities of inequality; 6 Racism; 7 Populism: protest, democratic challenge and right-wing extremism
    Description / Table of Contents: 8 Social exclusion: migration and social vulnerability9 Labour migration and informalisation: East meets West; Conclusion: Swedish exceptionalism and beyond; Index
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    ISBN: 9780765680839
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    Pages: Online-Ressource (701 p)
    Parallel Title: Print version Latino History and Culture : An Encyclopedia
    DDC: 305.868/07303
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    Abstract: Latinos are the fastest growing population in America today. This two-volume encyclopedia traces the history of Latinos in the United States from colonial times to the present, focusing on their impact on the nation in its historical development and current culture. ""Latino History and Culture"" covers the myriad ethnic groups that make up the Latino population. It explores issues such as labor, legal and illegal immigration, traditional and immigrant culture, health, education, political activism, art, literature, and family, as well as historical events and developments. A-Z entries cover e
    Description / Table of Contents: Cover; Half Title; Title; Copyright; Contents; Topic Finder; Contributors; Acknowledgments; Preface; Essays; History: 1492-1900; History: 1900-1965; History: 1965-Present; A-Z Entries; Acculturation and Assimilation; Acosta, Oscar; Acuña, Rodolfo; Afro-Latinos; Afro-Mexicans; AIDS/HIV; Alamo, Battle of the; Albizu Campos, Pedro; Algarín, Miguel; Alvarez, Julia; American GI Forum; Anaya, Rudolfo Alfonso; Anzaldúa, Gloria; Arenas, Reinaldo; Argentines; ASPIRA; Aztlán; Baca, Judith F.; Balseros; Baseball; Basketball; Bay of Pigs Invasion; Bear Flag Revolt; Bilingualism; Blair House Attack
    Description / Table of Contents: BlowoutsBolivians; Boricua; Boxing; Bracero Program; Brazilians; Brothers to the Rescue; Brown Berets; Carnalismo; Castellanos, Rosario; Castillo, Ana; Castro, Fidel; Central American Resource Center; Chávez, César; Chávez Ravine; Chicago; Chicanisma; Chicanismo; Chicano/a; Chicano Art; Chicano Movement; Chicano Studies; Chileans; Cholos; Cinco de Mayo; Circular Migration; Cisneros, Henry; Cisneros, Sandra; Clemente, Roberto; Cofer, Judith Ortiz; Colombians; Communist Party; Community Service Organization; Congressional Hispanic Caucus; Conquest of the Americas; Consumerism; Corona, Bert
    Description / Table of Contents: CorridosCosta Ricans; Coyotes; Cruz, Celia; Crystal City, Texas; Cuban Adjustment Acts (1966, 1996); Cuban American National Foundation; Cuban Refugee Center; Cuban Refugee Program; Cubans; Culture Clash; De La Hoya, Oscar; Del Rio Independent School District v. Salvatierra (1930); Día de la Raza; Día de los Muertos; Dominican Day Parade; Dominicans; East L.A. Thirteen; East Los Angeles; Ecuadorians; Education; Escalante, Jaime; Estefan, Gloria; Family and Community; Farah Strike; Farmingville, New York; Feminism; Ferrer, José; Film; Flores Magón, Ricardo; Foods and Beverages
    Description / Table of Contents: Foraker Act (1900)Foreign Miners' Tax (1850) ; Fuerzas Armadas de Liberación Nacional (FALN) ; Galarza, Ernesto; Gamio, Manuel; Gangs; Garcia, Cristina; García, Héctor P.; Gay and Lesbian Organizations; Gonzales, Rodolfo ""Corky"" ; González, Elián; Gonzalez, Henry Barbosa; Gonzalez, Jose-Luis; Graffiti; Grape Strikes and Boycotts; ""Greaser Act"" (1855) ; Gringo; Grito, El; Guagua Aérea; Guatemalans; Guevara, Ernesto ""Che"" ; Gutiérrez, José Angel; Health and Health Care; Hijuelos, Oscar; Hip-Hop; Hispanic Heritage Month; Hondurans; Housing and Living Conditions; Huerta, Dolores
    Description / Table of Contents: Identity and LabelsIllegal Immigration; Immigration Act of 1924 ; Immigration Act of 1990 ; Immigration and Nationality Act of 1965; Immigration Enforcement; Immigration Reform and Control Act of 1986; Indigenismo; Internal Colony; Jones Act (1917) ; Justice for Janitors; Kahlo, Frida; Kennedy, Robert F.; King, Martin Luther, Jr.; La Raza; La Raza Unida Party; Latinidad/Latinaje; Latinization; Latino/a; Latino Studies; League of United Latin American Citizens; Lemon Grove Incident; Lesbianas Unidas; Levins Morales, Aurora; LLEGÓ; Lopez, Jennifer; Los Angeles; Lowriders; Macheteros, Los
    Description / Table of Contents: Machismo
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    ISBN: 9781138844117
    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource (223 p)
    Series Statement: Routledge Library Editions: Folklore
    Parallel Title: Print version Turandot's Sisters (RLE Folklore) : A Study of the Folktale AT 851
    DDC: 398.2
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    Abstract: The central tale studied in Turandot's Sisters, first published in 1993, is The Princess Who Can Not Solve the Riddle, AT 851. Other wisdom tales are surveyed to show that they are separate from the riddle tales in material and in spirit. Customs and beliefs concerning riddling and riddle contests are examined to see what motifs from the tales are taken from reality, leaving the rest to be either fantasy motifs or stylistic traits. The central tale AT 851 is analysed in detail to exhibit its obligatory and optional elements, a wealth of possibilities that enables it to adapt to a range of mood
    Description / Table of Contents: Cover; Half Title; Title Page; Copyright Page; Original Title Page; Original Copyright Page; Table of Contents; Editor's Preface; Acknowledgments; 1. The Comparative Study of Folktales; 2. Riddle Tales from Literary Sources; From Ancient Sources: Classical; From Ancient Sources: Indian; From Medieval Sources: Eastern; Oriental Romances; From Medieval Sources: Western; Norse; Celtic; Cosmopolitan Tales; Overview; 3. The Princess Who Can Not Solve the Riddle; AT 851o: The Eastern Subtype; AT 851A: Turandot; AT 851B: The Unborn Hero; AT 851C: The South European Subtype; AT 851C + AT 570
    Description / Table of Contents: AT 851C in Eastern Europe and FinlandAT 851D: The Germanic Subtype; AT 851 + AT 507A; AT 851: Creole Tales; Summary; 4. Neck Riddles and Other Riddle Tales; Other Simple Riddle Tales; The Murdered Lover (Motif H805); Other Complex Tales with Riddles; 5. Riddle Themes; I. Cosmic Riddles; II. Monsters; III. The Dead and the Living; IV. Human Relationships, Natural and Unnatural; V. Impossibilities; VI. Puns; 6. Wisdom Tales; The Battle of the Sexes; Catch the Devil Through a Riddle; Out of the Mouths of Babes; Man to Man; Oriental Wisdom Tales; Conclusion; 7. Riddles in Folk Societies
    Description / Table of Contents: Riddles and PowerRiddles and Myths; The Interpersonal Situation; Riddles and Sex; Riddles and Education; Riddling in Tales; 8. The Style of the Tale; Rhythm; Human Relationships; Minor Characters; The Stage: Sets and Properties; Distinctive Qualities of the Subtypes; Novella and Märchen; Bibliography
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    ISBN: 9781138843929
    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource (201 p)
    Series Statement: Routledge Library Editions: Folklore
    Parallel Title: Print version Some Day Been Dey (RLE Folklore) : West African Pidgin Folktales
    DDC: 398.2/1/096711
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    Abstract: 'Once upon a time' is the English translation of the title of this collection of twenty-eight Pidgin tales from Cameroon in West Africa, first published in 1979. These are richly illustrative of the various folklore genres of the region and are presented in a modified standard orthography, with an English translation facing the original Pidgin text. Notes are provided on each tale with the intention of illuminating some of their unique stylistic and linguistic patterns. The tales are often witty, never protracted, and are pleasurable in their own right. They also provide linguistic and folklor
    Description / Table of Contents: Cover; Half Title; Title Page; Copyright Page; Original Title Page; Original Copyright Page; Table of Contents; Acknowledgments; Maps; Part One INTRODUCTION; Background to Cameroon; What is a pidgin?; Characteristics of a pidgin; The development of Cameroon Pidgin; When did Cameroon Pidgin develop?; The present role of Pidgin in Cameroon; Collecting the tales; Type of translation employed; Orthography employed; References; Part Two THE TALES; 1 Trohki an Hohk: Mek man no ehva laf i frehn; Tortoise and Hawk: Let no one ever laugh at his friend; 2 Trohki an Swain: Du gud tohn bad
    Description / Table of Contents: Tortoise and Pig: A good action may bring trouble3 Trohki an Elefan: Smohl no bi sik; Tortoise and Elephant: Smallness is not an illness; 4 Trohki an Hea: Sehns pas paua; Tortoise and Hare: Intelligence beats strength; 5 Trohki, Got an Lehpeht: Dai man nehva hohngri; Tortoise, Goat and Leopard: A corpse has few desires; 6 Trohki an i Mami (1): Ai no di ohlwez si tru; Tortoise and his Mother (1): The eye does not always see accurately; 7 Trohki and i Mami (2): Kohni man dai, kohni man beriam; Tortoise and his Mother (2): When a wise man dies, a wise man buries him; 8 Lohng ai go du yu
    Description / Table of Contents: Greed will be your downfall9 Trohng hed no gud; Stubbornness does not pay; 10 Dei no bi wan; There'll always be a tomorrow; 11 Bad-lohk bif no di si hohntaman; A fated animal does not see the hunter; 12 Wehn han di rohb fut, fut tu di rohb han; When the hand rubs the foot, the foot rubs the hand in return; 13 Sehns no bi foh daso wan man; Wisdom belongs to everyone; 14 Di sohn, di nait an di mun; Sun, Night and Moon; 15 Kohni-Mohf; Cunning-Mouth; 16 Kohroh kohroh pikin; The scabby child; 17 Gohd i koht, no apil; God's court, no appeal; 18 Mehdehsehn no bi pleting
    Description / Table of Contents: The supernatural is not to be played with19 Sehns-Pas-King; Genius; 20 A no go chus yu; I won't forgive you; 21 Ma mami bin tehl mi...; My mother warned me...; 22 Di smohl boi an di kajari; The young boy and the dwarf; 23 Bibaiyibaiyi an di papa-wata; Bibaiyibaiyi and the Papa-Water; 24 Ren foh Bohnggi; Rain for Bongi; Part Three THE STRUCTURE OF CAMEROON PIDGIN ENGLISH; The sentence in Pidgin; The pronominal system; The verb phrase; The Be-verb; Serial verbs; Index
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    ISBN: 9781138792562
    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource (227 p)
    Edition: 2nd ed
    Parallel Title: Print version New Black Man : Tenth Anniversary Edition
    DDC: 305.38/896073
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    Abstract: Ten years ago, Mark Anthony Neal's New Black Man put forth a revolutionary model of Black masculinity for the twenty-first century-one that moved beyond patriarchy to embrace feminism and combat homophobia. Now, Neal's book is more vital than ever, urging us to imagine a New Black Man whose strength resides in family, community, and diversity. Part memoir, part manifesto, this book celebrates the Black man of our times in all his vibrancy and virility. The tenth anniversary edition of this classic text includes a new foreword by Joan Morgan and a new introduction and postscript from Neal, whic
    Description / Table of Contents: Cover; Title; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; Foreword; Introduction to the Tenth Anniversary Edition; Preface; Acknowledgments; Introduction walking like a natural man; Chapter 1 there's a new black man in america today; Chapter 2 what the hell is a black male feminist?; Chapter 3 queers in a barrel; Chapter 4 bringing up daddy: a black feminist fatherhood; Chapter 5 "ms. fat booty" and the black male feminist; Afterword; Postscript finding tea cake: an imagined black feminist manhood; Endnotes; Index
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    ISBN: 9781138846944
    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource (211 p)
    Edition: Online-Ausg.
    Series Statement: Routledge Studies in Rhetoric and Communication
    Parallel Title: Print version Identity and Power in Narratives of Displacement
    DDC: 305.9/06914
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    Abstract: In this book, Powell examines the ways that identities are constructed in displacement narratives based on cases of eminent domain, natural disaster, and civil unrest, attending specifically to the rhetorical strategies employed as barriers and boundaries intersect with individual lives. She provides a unique method to understand how the displaced move within accepted and subversive discourses, and how representation is a crucial component of that movement. In addition, Powell shows how notions of human rights and the ""public good"" are often at odds with individual well-being and result in i
    Description / Table of Contents: Cover; Title; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; Acknowledgments; 1 Introduction: Constructing Narratives of (National) Identity within Relocations; 2 Reservations, Internments, and a Little Pink House: Linking U.S. Histories of Displacement with Human Rights; 3 Surviving the (Un)Natural Disaster in New Orleans: Rhetorical Implications of Embracing "Refugee"; 4 Buying Refugee Narratives: Sudanese Identity, Civil Unrest, and the Good Refugee; 5 "Barriers and Boundaries": Mixed Identities and Multiple Displacements in Sri Lanka; 6 Layers of Displacement: Discursive Mark(s) of Identity; Index
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    ISBN: 9781138842205
    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource (343 p)
    Series Statement: Routledge Library Editions: Folklore
    Parallel Title: Print version The Ballad and the Folk (RLE Folklore)
    DDC: 398.04209411
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    Abstract: The ballad is an enduring and universal literary genre. In this book, first published in 1972, David Buchan is concerned to establish the nature of a ballad and of the people who produced it through a study of the regional tradition of the Northeast of Scotland, the most fertile ballad area in Britain. His account of this tradition has two parallel aims, one specifically literary - to investigate the ballad as oral literature - and one broadly ethnographic - to set the regional tradition in its social context. Dr Buchan applies the interesting and important work which has recently been done on
    Description / Table of Contents: Cover; Half Title; Title Page; Copyright Page; Original Title Page; Original Copyright Page; Dediction; Table of Contents; Prefacce and Acknowledgments; Abbreviations; 1 Introduction; Part I: The Oral Tradition: the Folk; 2 The Land and the People; 3 The Agricultural Society; 4 The Border Region; 5 The Clannit Society; Part II: The Oral Tradition: the Ballads; 6 Balladry and Oral Poetry; 7 The Oral Ballads of Mrs Brown; 8 The Substance of the Ballads; 9 The Structure of the Ballads I; 10 The Structure of the Ballads II; 11 The Structure of the Ballads III; 12 The Sound of the Ballads
    Description / Table of Contents: 13 The Oral Ballad: A Summing-upPart III: The Tradition in Transition: the Folk; 14 The Revolutions; 15 The New Society; Part IV: The Tradition in Transition: the Ballads; 16 The Peter Buchan Controversy; 17 The Ballads of James Nicol; Part V: The Modern Tradition; 18 The Ballads of Bell Robertson; 19 The Bothy Ballads; 20 Conclusion; Appendix: Northeast Collectors and Collections; Glossary; Notes and References; A Selected Bibliography; Index of Ballads, Songs, Poems and Tales; General Index
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    ISBN: 9780415718837
    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource (182 p)
    Edition: Online-Ausg.
    Parallel Title: Print version Psychosocial Studies : An Introduction
    DDC: 302.071
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    Abstract: There is expanding global interest in the relationship between the psychological and the social. The bringing together of affect, emotion and feeling with social, political and cultural forces offers a creative, innovative and rich set of ways of understanding what Charles Wright Mills called the links between personal troubles and public issues. This book is an introduction to psychosocial studies. Drawing on different approaches to the field, the book introduces the main theoretical influences on psychosocial studies and their development and impact, through - for example - concepts such as
    Description / Table of Contents: Cover; Title; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; Acknowledgements; 1 Introduction; 2 Ideas; 3 Methodologies; 4 Selves; 5 Affect; 6 Intimacies; 7 Risk; 8 Trauma; 9 Politics; 10 Conclusion; Glossary; References; Index
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    ISBN: 9781138775336
    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource (196 p)
    Series Statement: Routledge Research in Journalism
    Parallel Title: Print version Audience Feedback in the News Media
    DDC: 302.23
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    Abstract: As long as there has been news media, there has been audience feedback. This book provides the first definitive history of the evolution of audience feedback, from the early newsbooks of the 16th century to the rough-and-tumble online forums of the modern age. In addition to tracing the historical development of audience feedback, the book considers how news media has changed its approach to accommodating audience participation, and explores how audience feedback can serve the needs of both individuals and collectives in democratic society. Reader writes from a position of authority, having wo
    Description / Table of Contents: Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents ; Acknowledgements ; Introduction ; 1 Audience Comments, the Spice of History ; 2 "Packets of Letters": Audience Comments Before Freedom of the Press; 3 "A Sure Sign of Liberty, and a Cause of It": Audience Feedback and the Emergence of the Free Press; 4 Commodification of Comments: Professional Bias and Gatekeeping of Letters to the Editor; 5 Professional Journalism's Transformation of "a Quaint Tradition" ; 6 Concerning "Crackpots": The Media's Love-Hate Relationship with Feedback; 7 "In My Opinion . . .": Commenting as Individual Agency
    Description / Table of Contents: 8 "We, the People . . .": Commenting as Collective Action9 Conclusion: Gatekeeping in an Age without Fences; Index
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    ISBN: 9781138841369
    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource (89 p)
    Edition: 2nd ed
    Series Statement: Framing 21st Century Social Issues
    Parallel Title: Print version Oversharing: Presentations of Self in the Internet Age
    DDC: 302.23/1
    Keywords: Electronic books
    Abstract: People 'overshare' when they interact with others through the screens of computers and smartphones. Oversharing means to divulge more of their inner feelings, opinions and sexuality than they would in person, or even over the phone. Text messaging, Facebooking, tweeting, camming, blogging, online dating, and internet porn are vehicles of this oversharing, which blurs the boundary between public and private life. This book examines these 'presentations of self', acknowledging that we are now much more public about what used to be private. With this second edition, Agger adds a new chapter on wh
    Description / Table of Contents: Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; Series Foreword; Preface; I. Thanks for Sharing; II. Texting, Tweeting, and Blogging; III. Social Media; IV. Online Dating; V. Internet Pornography; VI. Is Privacy Possible?; VII. A Non-Pornographic Public Sphere; References; Glossary/Index
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    ISBN: 9781138844278
    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource (231 p)
    Series Statement: Routledge Library Editions: Folklore
    Parallel Title: Print version Yanagita Kunio and the Folklore Movement (RLE Folklore) : The Search for Japan's National Character and Distinctiveness
    DDC: 398.092
    Keywords: Electronic books
    Abstract: 〈P〉Yanagita Kunio almost singlehandedly initiated the serious study of folklore in Japan. Even modern Japanese folklorists who may disagree with his approach or his methods must take his body of work as a point of departure for their own. This book, first published in 1990, puts Yanagita's career within a historical framework and context, full of detail about Japanese political and literary trends which influenced or were influenced by the folklore scholarship of Yanagita. 〈/P〉
    Description / Table of Contents: Cover; Half Title; Title Page; Copyright Page; Original Title Page; Original Copyright Page; Table of Contents; Editor's Preface; Acknowledgments; Introduction; I The Formative Years; II Policy and Agrarian Society; IIl Yanagita Folklore: Structure and Influence; IV The Sources for Yanagita's "New National Learning"; V The Folklorist's Craft; VI Folklorist as Hero; Appendix; 1. The Matsuoka Household; 2. Stone Tablet at Takeuchi Shrine; 3. Yanagita's Marginalia in George Laurence Gomme's Folklore as an Historical Science; 4. Major Folklore Related Journals; 5. Folklore Survey Checkpoints
    Description / Table of Contents: Bibliography
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    ISBN: 9781848933743
    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource (200 p)
    Series Statement: Financial HIST
    Parallel Title: Print version Debt and Slavery in the Mediterranean and Atlantic Worlds
    DDC: 306.363091821
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    Abstract: Filling a significant gap in the historiography, the essays in this volume show that debt slavery has played a crucial role in the economic history of numerous societies which continues even today
    Description / Table of Contents: Cover; Half Title; Series Page; Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; Acknowledgements; List of Contributors; Introduction; 1 Debt Bondage and Chattel Slavery in Early Rome; 2 Slavery, Debt and Bondage: The Mediterranean and the Eurasia Connection from the Fifteenth to the Eighteenth Century; 3 Clientship, Social Indebtedness and State-Controlled Emancipation of Africans in the Late Ottoman Empire; 4 Pawnship and Seizure for Debt in the Process of Enslavement in West Africa; 5 The Business of 'Trust' and the Enslavement of Yoruba Women and Children for Debt
    Description / Table of Contents: 6 The Africanization of the Workforce in English America7 Credit, Captives, Collateral and Currencies: Debt, Slavery and the Financing of the Atlantic World; 8 Unpayable Debts: Reinventing Bonded Labour through Legal Freedom in Nineteenth-Century Brazil; 9 Indigenous Debt and the Spirit of Colonial Capitalism: Debt, Taxes and the Cash-Crop Economy in the Anglo-Egyptian Sudan, 1898-1956; Notes; Index
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    ISBN: 9781848933101
    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource (250 p)
    Series Statement: Studies for the Society for the Social HIST of Medicine
    Series Statement: Studies for the Society for the Social History of Medicine Ser.
    Parallel Title: Print version Desperate Housewives, Neuroses and the Domestic Environment, 1945-1970
    DDC: 306.461
    Keywords: Depression in women ; Social aspects ; Electronic books ; Electronic books
    Abstract: Although the figure of the 'desperate housewife' is familiar to us, Haggett suggests that many women in the 1950s and '60s led satisfying lives and that gender roles, while very different, were often seen as equal
    Description / Table of Contents: Cover; Half Title; Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; Acknowledgements; List of Figures; Introduction; 1 Reflections on the Desperate Housewife; 2 The Art of Marriage: Marriage and Mothering during the Post-War Period; 3 The Housewife's Day: Personal Accounts of Housewifery and Mothering; 4 Lightening Troubled Minds: Mid-Twentieth Century Medical Understandings of Affective Disorders; 5 Not Something You Talk About: Personal Accounts of Anxiety and Depression; 6 For Ladies in Distress: Representations of Anxiety and Depression in the Medical and Popular Press; Conclusion; Appendix
    Description / Table of Contents: NotesWorks Cited; Index
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    ISBN: 9780415715461
    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource (551 p)
    Parallel Title: Print version Routledge Handbook of Families in Asia
    DDC: 306.85095
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    Abstract: Research on the family has expanded considerably across Asia but studies tend to be fragmented, focusing on narrow issues within limited areas (cities, towns, small communities) and may not be accessible to international readers. These limitations make it difficult for researchers, students, policy makers, and practitioners to obtain the information they need. The Routledge Handbook of Families in Asia fills that gap by providing a current and comprehensive analysis of Asian families by a wide range of experts in a single publication.The thirty-two chapters of this comparative and multi-discip
    Description / Table of Contents: Cover; Half Title; Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; Contributors; Preface; Part I Introduction; 1 Families in Asia: a kaleidoscope of continuity and change; Part 2 Conceptualizing 'family' in the Asian context; 2 Family theories in the Asian context; 3 Feminist, constructionist and other critical theories; Part 3 Methodological issues in family research; 4 Ascertaining family phenomena: measuring family behaviour; 5 Challenges of longitudinal family studies in Asia; Part 4 Family life in the context of culture; 6 Singlehood as a lifestyle in Asia; 7 Dating and courtship
    Description / Table of Contents: 8 Marriage practices and trends9 Fertility trends in Asia: prospects and implications of very low fertility; 10 Motherhood and childbirth practices in Asia; 11 Fatherhood in Asian contexts; 12 Early childhood socialization and well-being; 13 Adolescents and transition to adulthood in Asia; Part 5 Family relationships across the life cycle; 14 Married couples and the marital relationship in Asia; 15 Parent-child and sibling relationships in contemporary Asia; 16 Ageing and grandparenting in Asia; Part 6 Family, work and income; 17 Working couples: the dual-income family
    Description / Table of Contents: 18 Breadwinning, family and time over the life course19 Social class, poverty and family life: Asian perspectives; Part 7 Uncertainty, stress and conflict in the family; 20 Preventing and managing conflict in the family; 21 Spousal violence and in-law conflict in Asia: the case of China, Taiwan and Hong Kong; 22 Divorce trends and patterns in Asia; 23 Remarriage and stepfamilies; 24 Illness and caregiving in the family; Part 8 Family diversity; 25 Cohabitation in Asia; 26 Cohabitation: the case of Thailand; Part 9 Family policies and the law; 27 Divorce, the family court and family lawyering
    Description / Table of Contents: 28 Legal protection of minors: experiences of four common law jurisdictions in Asia29 Legal protection of aged parents and inheritance laws in Asia; Part 10 Space and environmental settings of family life; 30 Making a home: architectural features; 31 Working from home: redesigning internal space use in homes; Index
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    ISBN: 9781138825581
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    Pages: Online-Ressource (192 p)
    Edition: Online-Ausg.
    Series Statement: Routledge Critical Studies in Discourse
    Parallel Title: Print version Discourses of Ideology and Identity : Social Media and the Iranian Election Protests
    DDC: 302.2310955090511
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    Abstract: In this monograph, Chris Featherman adopts a discourse analytical approach to explore the ways in which social movement ideologies and identities are discursively constructed in new and old media. In the context of his argument, Featherman also considers current debates surrounding the role that technologies play in democracy-building and global activist networks. He engages these critical issues through a case study of the 2009 Iranian presidential election protests, looking at both US legacy media coverage of the protests as well as activists' use of social media. Through qualitative analysi
    Description / Table of Contents: Cover; Title; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; List of Figures; List of Tables; Acknowledgments; 1 Opening: Protesting the Results; 2 ""Down with Potatoes!"" Theory, Methods, Contexts; 3 Constructing the Protesters' Identities in the U.S. Media; 4 Borrowed Language: Reentextualizing Symbolic Resources and Discursively Constructing Stance; 5 Collective Action and Networked Identifications; 6 Effervescence or Resonance? Closings; Appendix A: Twitter Data; Appendix B: ""Where Is This Place?"" Transcript; Index
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    ISBN: 9780415712101
    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource (183 p)
    Parallel Title: Print version Social Semiotics : Key Figures, New Directions
    DDC: 302.2
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    Abstract: M.A.K Halliday's work has been hugely influential in linguistics and beyond since the 1960s. This is a collection of interviews with key figures in the generation of social semioticians who have taken Halliday's concept of social semiotics and developed it further in various directions, making their own original contributions to theory and practice. This book highlights their main lines of thought and considers how they relate to both the original concept of social semiotics and to each other. Key themes include:Linguistic studies, multilinguality and evolution of language;Text, discourse and
    Description / Table of Contents: Cover; Half Title ; Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents ; Acknowledgements; Preface; 1. Introduction; What is Halliday's social semiotics?; Who are the scholars?; How were the interviews done?; References; 2. Christian M.I.M. Matthiessen; Background; SFL and social semiotics; Communication, text and code; Language description; Dialects of SFL; Context and genre; Meaning; Mode and multi-semiotic work; SFL and language teaching; The future; References; 3. Jim R. Martin; Background; Basic concepts; Stratification; Context; Semantics; Appraisal; Multimodality; SFL dialects
    Description / Table of Contents: Genre pedagogyThe future; References; 4. Gunther Kress; Background and beginnings; Politics and semiotics; Mode; Medium; Affordances; Literacy; Text and communication; Design; Applications; The future; Notes; References; 5. Theo van Leeuwen; Background; From SFL to multimodality; Semiotics and social theory; Sign making; Multimodality and mode; Technology and meaning; Theory building; Linguistics in a multimodal world; Impact; The future; References; 6. Jay Lemke; Background; The sign; Meta-redundancy; Metafunctions, communication, text and genre; Stratification and text - and time-scales
    Description / Table of Contents: MultimodalitySocial semiotics, SFL and science; Cognition, emotions and aesthetics; Digital media; Social semiotics and SFL in US; SFL - today and in the future; References; 7. Central themes; Key figures, new directions; Systems and concepts; Multimodality; Social critique and design; Functions and applications; Future challenges, hopes and aspirations; References; Index
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    ISBN: 9781138902374
    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource (157 p)
    Series Statement: Routledge Studies in Middle Eastern Geography
    Parallel Title: Print version Israel and Africa : A Genealogy of Moral Geography
    DDC: 303.48/2569406
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    Abstract: Israel and Africa critically examines the ways in which Africa - as a geopolitical entity - is socially manufactured, collectively imagined but also culturally denied in Israeli politics. Its unique exploration of moral geography and its comprehensive, interdisciplinary research on the two countries offers new perspectives on Israeli history and society.Through a genealogical investigation of the relationships between Israel and Africa, this book sheds light on the processes of nationalism, development and modernization, exploring Africa's role as an instrument in the constant re-shaping of Zi
    Description / Table of Contents: Israel and Africa-Front Cover; Israel and Africa; Title Page; Copyright; Contents; Figures; Preface; Introduction: Family album; Notes; Part I: Israel in Africa; Chapter 1: Africa's decade; "For out of Zion shall go forth the law" (Isaiah 2:3); Exporting pioneering and development models from Israel to Africa; Nahal in the Black Continent; Notes; Chapter 2: The architecture of foreign policy; A national tool of the highest degree; Postcolonial Utopia; Form follows climate; Networks of colonial knowledge; From the African Riviera to the West Bank; Notes; Part II: Africa in Israel
    Description / Table of Contents: Chapter 3: Consuming, reading, imaginingAfrica awakens; Primitive art, imaginative geography; Notes; Chapter 4: North Africa in Israel; North African Nahalal; Netivot; Notes; Chapter 5: The racialization of space; All of us are refugees; Just let me go to the city; Exclusion and detention; Geopolitics of racialization; Notes; Part III: Israel in Africa II; Chapter 6: Back to Africa; Corn fields and battlefields; Notes; Conclusion; Note; Bibliography; Index
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    ISBN: 9781138917392
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    Pages: Online-Ressource (251 p)
    Edition: 2nd ed
    Parallel Title: Print version Understanding Chinese Society
    DDC: 306.0951
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    Abstract: This second edition of Understanding Chinese Society provides a comprehensive, readable, and well-grounded introduction to the key issues affecting contemporary China. A thorough analysis is undertaken not only of China's family patterns, education system, status, hierarchy, and ethnic diversity, but also of China's mass media, legal system and social control, work, and cultural expression. As well as being thoroughly updated and revised throughout, this edition offers new chapters on urbanization, the environment, and civil society in China.A team of international experts guide students thoug
    Description / Table of Contents: Cover; Half Title; Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; List of illustrations; List of contributors; 1. Introduction; 2. Foundations of Chinese identity: place, past and culture; Geography: placing 'China'; Chinese traditions: Confucianism and beyond; Histories of China; Self, community and nation in the early twentieth century; New revolutionary communities after 1949; Modernisation, globalisation and the re-imagining of China; 3. Rituals and the life cycle; Birth and childhood; Entry into adulthood; Weddings; Years of calamity; Retirement and old age
    Description / Table of Contents: Death and memorial celebrationsConclusion; 4. Family and marriage; Family structure; Fertility transition; Marriage; Marriage squeeze; Marital breakdown; Conclusion; 5. Gender and sexuality; Historical context of gender and sexuality; Gender norm transformation in pre-1949 China; Gender and work in post-1949 China; Sexuality in contemporary China; Sex and economy; Homosexuality; Conclusion; 6. Contested ground: community and neighbourhood; Grassroots society in Mao's China; The changing rural community; State interventions; The changing urban neighbourhood; New neighbourhood space
    Description / Table of Contents: Neighbourhood-orientated reformsConclusion; 7. Education; A brief history; Primary and secondary schools in today's China; The rural-urban divide; Education and ethnic minority groups; China's higher education; Conclusion; 8. Status and hierarchy; Hierarchies in Mao's China; Hierarchies in post-Mao China; Conclusion; Glossary; 9. Ethnic minorities; What is an ethnic minority?; Population; The Han and the ethnic minoritie; The ethnic minorities: policy and reality; The economy; Some aspects of culture; Main problem areas; Conclusion; Glossary of terms; List of abbreviations
    Description / Table of Contents: 10. Transformation of work in post-Mao ChinaThe organization of work under Mao; Highlights of post-Mao transformations; Organizational implications of economic institutional change; Conclusion; Glossary; 11. Urbanization and its impact in China; The urbanization drive in China; Injustice to migrants: Social and political exclusion; Land-centred urbanization and government dependency on land revenue; The emergence of ghost cities; Conclusion; 12. Mass media in China; Mass media in Mao's era; Mass media during the reform era; More refined and sophisticated management from the Partystate
    Description / Table of Contents: MarketizationConglomeration; Capitalization; Social and political implications; Conclusion; 13. Environmental protection; Environmental (non-)protection in the Mao era; The state of national environmental governance; Limits of top-down environmentalism; Nascent green activism; Globalizing environmentalism; Some greening of the Chinese states; Conclusion; 14. Civil society in a birdcage; Chinese society before the end of totalitarianism; Market transition and the rise of the middle class; Post-1978 social organizations; The party-state as the 'birdcage' of social organizations
    Description / Table of Contents: Social movements: Bottom-up challenge to the state?
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    ISBN: 9780205632350
    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource (221 p)
    Edition: 2nd ed
    Parallel Title: Print version Multicultural Psychology
    DDC: 305.8
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    Abstract: 〈P〉This text introduces student to cultural and minority status issues in psychology, and the role of multicultural issues in mainstream research. It focuses on multiple cultural groups that co-exist in the United States, and the sociopolitical aspects of this co-existence. An emphasis on empirical research findings complements the "real life" relevance of multicultural psychology.〈/P〉
    Description / Table of Contents: Cover; Title Page; Copyright Page; Dedication; Table of Contents; Preface; Section One Multicultural Issues in the Context of Psychology; Chapter 1 What Is Multicultural Psychology?; Cultural Diversity and Mainstream Psychology; The Importance of Multicultural Issues; Definitions of Multicultural Psychology, Race, Ethnicity, Culture, and Minority Status; Social Class; Models of Racial/Ethnic Identity; Cross Model of Racial Identity; Helms Model of White Racial Identity; Sellers et al. Multidimensional Model of Racial Identity; Phinney Model of Ethnic Identity
    Description / Table of Contents: Poston Biracial Identity Development ModelModels of Acculturation; Berry Model of Acculturation; LaFromboise, Coleman, and Gerton Models of Acculturation; Chapter 2 Multicultural Research Methods; Quantitative Research Methods; Theory-Guided Research; Sampling Issues; Recruitment of Participants; Ethnic and Racial Identification; Cultural Equivalence of Constructs and Measures; Culture-Specific Constructs; Data Analyses; Qualitative Research Methods; Communication and Dissemination of Findings; Chapter 3 Biological Psychology; Genetic Psychology; Genes and Intelligence
    Description / Table of Contents: Genetics and Alcohol UseEvolutionary Psychology; Evolution and Ethnic Identity; Health Psychology; Eating Disorders; Discrimination and Blood Pressure; Discrimination and Substance Use; Discrimination and Birth Outcomes; Discrimination and Chronic Health Problems; Chapter 4 Developmental Psychology; Racial and Ethnic Socialization; Racial and Ethnic Discrimination; A Developmental Model of Children's Perceptions of Discrimination; Early Childhood; Middle/Late Childhood; Adolescence; Developmental Changes in Ethnic Identity During Adolescence
    Description / Table of Contents: Effects of Racial and Ethnic Identity During AdolescenceLate Adolescence/Early Adulthood; Chapter 5 Social Psychology; Current Forms of Discrimination; Intergroup Stereotypes and Social Dominance; Intergroup Relations in School Settings; Stereotype Threat; Reducing Intergroup Prejudice; Affirmative Action; Section Two Psychology in the Context of Multicultural Issues; Chapter 6 African Americans; History; 1600s-1800s: Slavery and the Civil War; 1900s-1930s: Racism and Separatism; 1940s-1970s: Civil Rights; 1980s-2000s: Dismantling of Affirmative Action, but Hope for the Future
    Description / Table of Contents: Cultural Values and IdentityFamily Issues; Mental Health; Academic Achievement and Career Development; Career Development; Chapter 7 Asian Pacific Americans; History; Early Immigration; Asian Pacific Americans in Hawaii; Japanese American Incarceration During World War II; Repeal of Immigration Restrictions; Southeast Asian Immigration; Recent Immigration; Asian American Identity and Civil Rights; Cultural Values and Identity; Family Issues; Intergenerational Cultural Gaps; Family Obligations; Mental Health; Academic Achievement and Career Development; Chapter 8 Latino/a Americans; History
    Description / Table of Contents: Mexican Americans
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    ISBN: 9780415840491
    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource (203 p)
    Parallel Title: Print version An Archaeology of the Immaterial
    DDC: 306.4/6071
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    Abstract: An Archaeology of the Immaterial examines a highly significant but poorly understood aspect of material culture studies: the active rejection of the material world. Buchli argues that this is evident in a number of cultural projects, including anti-consumerism and asceticism, as well as other attempts to transcend material circumstances. Exploring the cultural work which can be achieved when the material is rejected, and the social effects of these 'dematerialisations', this book situates the way some people disengage from the world as a specific kind of physical engagement which has profound
    Description / Table of Contents: An Archaeology of the Immaterial - Front Cover; An Archaeology of the Immaterial ; Title Page; Copyright Page; Contents; Figures; Preface; Acknowledgements; Chapter 1: Introduction; The immaterial ; Producing the immaterial ; Attachments ; Dualisms ; Realism ; Acknowledgement; Notes; Chapter 2: Immateriality and the ascetic object in early Christianity; Producing the immaterial ; Dualisms ; Attachments ; Incorrigibility ; Conclusion ; Acknowledgement; Notes ; Chapter 3: The Christian ascetic object before the Reformation; The late medieval ; Producing the immaterial ; Dualism ; Conclusion
    Description / Table of Contents: AcknowledgementNotes ; Chapter 4: The Reformation and the problem of visibility and proximity; Producing the immaterial ; Conclusion ; Acknowledgement; Notes ; Chapter 5: Leninism, immateriality and modernity; Soviet immateriality ; Soviet objectlessness ; Post-war objectlessness ; Twenty-first-century immateriality ; Early twenty-first-century objectlessness, digitization, immateriality and transcendence ; Three-dimensional printing and 'objectlessness' ; The 'Liberator' gun ; Killing images and images that kill ; Acknowledgement; Notes ; Bibliography; Index
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    ISBN: 9780415721608
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    Pages: Online-Ressource (329 p)
    Series Statement: Explorations in Social Psychology
    Series Statement: Explorations in Social Psychology Ser.
    Parallel Title: Print version Discursive Psychology : Classic and contemporary issues
    DDC: 302.01
    Keywords: Discursive psychology ; Electronic books ; Electronic books
    Abstract: Discursive Psychology is the first collection to systematically and critically appraise the influence and development of its foundational studies, exploring central concepts in social psychology such as attitudes, gender, cognition, memory, prejudice, and ideology. The book explores how discursive psychology has accommodated and responded to assumptions contained in classic studies, discussing what can still be gained from a dialogue with these inquiries, and which epistemological and methodological debates are still running, or are worth reviving.International contributors look back at the or
    Description / Table of Contents: Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; List of illustrations; List of contributors; Acknowledgments; Introduction: the evolution of discursive psychology: From classic to contemporary themes; PART I Epistemology and method; 1 Interpretative repertoires, conversation analysis and being critical; 2 Hitting ontological rock bottom: Discursive psychology's respecification of the realism/relativism debate; 3 Conversation analysis and discursive psychology: Taking up the challenge of Sacks' legacy; 4 Natural and contrived data; 5 Questions of context: Qualitative interviews as a source of knowledge
    Description / Table of Contents: PART II Cognition, emotion and the psychological thesaurus6 What happened to post-cognitive psychology?; 7 From Loughborough with love: How discursive psychology rocked the heart of social psychology's love affair with attitudes; 8 Discursive psychology and emotion; 9 Recasting the psychologist's question: Children's talk as social action; 10 Seeing the inside from the outside of children's minds: Displayed understanding and interactional competence; 11 From script theory to script formulation: Derek Edwards' shift from perceptual-realism to the interactional-rhetorical
    Description / Table of Contents: PART III Social categories, identity and memory12 Reorienting categories as a members' phenomena; 13 Some relevant things about gender and other categories in discursive psychology; 14 Dilemmas of memory: The mind is not a tape recorder; 15 A forgotten legacy? Towards a discursive psychology of the media; PART IV Prejudice, racism and nationalism; 16 Re-theorizing prejudice in social psychology: From cognition to discourse; 17 'Race stereotypes' as 'racist' discourse; 18 Fact and evaluation in racist discourse revisited
    Description / Table of Contents: 19 Banal nationalism, postmodernism and capitalism: Revisiting Billig's critique of RortyIndex
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    ISBN: 9781482216592
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    Pages: Online-Ressource (312 p)
    Series Statement: Public Administration and Public Policy
    Series Statement: Public Administration and Public Policy Ser. v.195
    Parallel Title: Print version Digital Divides : The New Challenges and Opportunities of e-Inclusion
    DDC: 303.4833
    Keywords: Information technology -- Economic aspects ; Information technology -- Government policy ; Electronic books ; Electronic books
    Abstract: 〈P〉The digital divide refers to the social and economic inequalities that arise among populations due to inclusion or exclusion in digital resources. In the United States, for example, one quarter of the population is still offline. As the digital age advances, public policy officials must determine where the gaps are, and how to maneuver closure of these gaps. Divided into sections ranging from defining the issues, geographic and multilevel trends, stakeholder perspectives, best practices, and future developments, this book explores how governments can bridge the digtial divide.〈/P〉
    Description / Table of Contents: Front Cover; Contents; Foreword; Acknowledgments; Contributors; Introduction; Chapter 1: The Digital Divide and the Global Post-2015 Development Debate; Chapter 2: The Digital Broadband and Gender Divides; Chapter 3: Challenging the Digital Divide in a Developing Country: Ghana Case Study; Chapter 4: China's Digital Divides and Their Countermeasures; Chapter 5: Spatial and Social Aspects of the Digital Divide in Russia; Chapter 6: Broadband Policy and Rural and Cultural Divides in Australia; Chapter 7: Digital Skills in Europe: Research and Policy
    Description / Table of Contents: Chapter 8: Digital Inclusion: The Singapore PerspectiveChapter 9: Leveraging Mobile Revolution for Turning Digital Divide into Digital Dividend: Examples from India, Bangladesh, and Sri Lanka; Chapter 10: e-­Inclusion in Education: Lessons from Five Countries; Chapter 11: e-­Education at the Local Level: Challenges and Pitfalls of Public Policies in Rio de Janeiro; Chapter 12: Local + Digital + Scale: A Mass Movement for Digital Inclusion; Chapter 13: Beyond Failure: Rethinking Research and Evaluation in ICT4D; Chapter 14: In Conclusion: Tackling Future Digital Divides; Back Cover
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    ISBN: 9780765682222
    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource (1030 p)
    Parallel Title: Print version Native Peoples of the World: An Encylopedia of Groups, Cultures and Contemporary Issues
    DDC: 305.8003
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    Abstract: This work examines the world's indigenous peoples, their cultures, the countries in which they reside, and the issues that impact these groups
    Description / Table of Contents: Cover; Half Title; Title; Copyright; Contents; List of Sidebars; Contributors; Acknowledgments; Introduction; World Map; Groups; Africa; Introduction; Acholi; Akan; Amhara; Asante; Baganda; Bagwere; Bamileke; Banda; Baule; Bemba; Berber; Borana; Dagomba; Dan; Dinka; Dogon; Dyula; Eket; Fulani; Gbaya; Gonja; Gumuz; Gurage; Hausa; Hehe; Himba; Hutu; Ibibio; Idoma; Igbo; Ijo; Kalenjin; Karamojong; Kikuyu; Kongo; Kuba; Lega; Luba; Luhya; Luluwa; Luo; Maasai; Mbole; Mende; Merina; Mossi; Ndebele; Ngbaka; Nubians; Nyamwezi; Nyiha; Oromo; Pende; Pokot; Rundi; San (Bushmen); Senoufo; Shona; Sidama
    Description / Table of Contents: SomaliSongye; Sudanese; Sukuma; Swahili; Teso; Tigrinya; Tsonea; Turkana; Tutsi; Twa; Urhobo; Wolof; Xhosa; Yao; Yombe; Yoruba; Zulu; Central and South America; Introduction; Amuzgo; Asháninka; Awá; Aymara; Avoreo; Bororo; Chontal de Oaxaca; Cofán; Embera; Garífuna; Guambiano; Guaraní; Huastec; Huave; Huichol; Kalinago; Kichwa; Kuna; Lacandónes; Lenca; Mapuche; Maya; Mayo; Miskito; Mixtec; Nahua; Nasa; Otomí; Pame; P'urhépecha; Quechua; Quiché; Rama; Shuar; Sumu-Mayangna; Taino; Tarahumara; Ticuna; Totonac; Tukano; Tupi; Tzeltal and Tzotzil; Warao; Wayúu; Wichí; Yanomami; Yaqui; Yucatec Maya
    Description / Table of Contents: ZáparaZapotec; East Asia and Oceania; Introduction; Ainu; Akha; Altay; Andaman Islanders; Bajau; Balinese; Burmese; Cambodians; Chamorros; Chams; Chukchi; Chukotko-Kamchatkan; Dayak; Han; Hawaiians; Indigenous Australians; Indonesians; Jurchen; Kamchadal; Kanaks; Ket; Khitan; Lao; Lapita; Liao; Malay; Manchu; Maori; Melanesians; Micronesians; Mongols; Montagnards; Moriori; Negrito; Okinawans; Paekche; Papuans; Polynesians; Ryukyuans; Samoyedic; Taiwanese Aborigines; Thai; Tungusic; Uzbek; Vietnamese; Wa; West Irian Peoples; Xi Xia; Xiongnu; Yakuts; Yi; Yuezhi; Europe; Introduction
    Description / Table of Contents: Abkhazians (Abkhaz)Albanians; Armenians; Azeri (Azerbaijanians); Basques; Belorussians; Bosniaks; Bretons; Bulgarians; Castilians; Catalans; Chechens; Chuvash; Corsicans; Cossacks; Croats; Cypriots; Czechs; Danes; Dutch; English; Estonians; Faroese; Finns; Flemish; French; Frisians; Friulians; Gagauz; Galicians; Georgians; Germans; Greeks; Greenlanders; Hungarians; Icelanders; Irish; Italians; Jews, European; Kalmyks; Karaims; Karelians; Kashubs; Komi; Ladinians; Latvians; Lithuanians; Livonians; Luxembourgers; Macedonians; Maltese; Mari; Moldovans; Montenegrins; Norwegians; Occitans; Ossetes
    Description / Table of Contents: PolesPortuguese; Rhaetoromans (Rumantschs); Roma (Gypsies); Romanians; Russians; Sami; Sardinians; Scots, Highland; Scots, Lowland; Serbs; Slovaks; Slovenes; Sorbs; Swedes; Tatars, Crimean; Tatars, Volga; Udmurt; Ukrainians; Walloons; Welsh; North America; Introduction; Abenaki; Aleut; Algonquian; Apache; Arapaho; Assiniboine; Athabascan; Blackfeet; Blackfoot; Caddo; Cayuga; Cherokee; Cheyenne; Chickasaw; Chippewa; Choctaw; Chumash; Colville; Comanche; Cree; Crow; Eskimo; Haida; Havasupai; Hoopa; Hopi; Houma; Hualapai; Huron; Inuit; Iowa; Kickapoo; Kiowa; Klamath; Kootenai; Lenape; Luiseño
    Description / Table of Contents: Lumbee
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    ISBN: 9780415855303
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    Pages: Online-Ressource (198 p)
    Series Statement: ASAA Women in Asia Series
    Parallel Title: Print version Trafficking Women in Korea : Filipina migrant entertainers
    DDC: 306.3/62082
    Keywords: Electronic books
    Abstract: Based on in-depth ethnographic work, this book presents a study of Filipinas trafficked to South Korea, focusing on women who entered South Korea as migrant entertainers and subsequently became deployed in exploitative work environments around US military bases there. It contributes to the extension of our knowledge about human trafficking in the Asian region through an exploration of the experiences of more than 100 women who took part in the study. The book challenges many of the accepted understandings about ""trafficking victims"" and unravels the implications of these narrow understanding
    Description / Table of Contents: Cover; Title; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; Illustrations; Series editor's foreword; Acknowledgements; Acronyms; 1 Introduction; 2 'Sex trafficking' comes to Korea's gijich'on; 3 Re-thinking trafficking in gijich'on; 4 Health in trafficking; 5 Romancing (in) the club; 6 Running to the future; 7 Anti-trafficking by NGOs and entertainers; 8 Home is where the hurt is; 9 Conclusion; References; Index
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    ISBN: 9781138783805
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    Parallel Title: Print version Climate Change Adaptation and Social Resilience in the Sundarbans
    DDC: 363.738/740954925
    Keywords: Climate change mitigation - Sundarbans (Bangladesh and India) ; Electronic books
    Abstract: Household vulnerability to weather shocks and changing climatic conditions has become a major concern in developing countries. Yet the empirical evidence remains limited on the impact that changing environmental conditions have on households. This book explores climate change adaptation using a social resilience approach.The book is based on primary data from the Sundarbans, a densely populated area located across parts of Bangladesh and India (West Bengal) which is highly vulnerable to extreme weather events and climate change. The focus is on assessing how households are affected by cyclones
    Description / Table of Contents: Cover; Half Title; Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; Acknowledgments; 1 Introduction; Part I Background; 2 Three approaches to climate change adaptation; 2.1 Introduction; 2.2 Hazards approach; 2.3 Vulnerability approach; 2.4 Resilience approach; 2.5 Conclusion; 3 Focus of the study and data; 3.1 Introduction; 3.2 Impact of weather shocks; 3.3 Coping and adaptation; 3.4 Migration; 3.5 Data collection; 3.6 Conclusion; 4 Ecological, historical, and socio-economic context; 4.1 Introduction; 4.2 Physiographical and ecological development; 4.3 Early human settlements
    Description / Table of Contents: 4.4 The colonial and contemporary era4.5 Living conditions today; 4.6 Conclusion; Part II Vulnerability, coping, and adaptation; 5 Impact of cyclones on household dwellings; 5.1 Introduction; 5.2 Basic statistics; 5.3 Regression analysis; 5.4 Conclusion; 6 Coping and adaptation; 6.1 Introduction; 6.2 Household coping and adaptation; 6.3 Community and government support; 6.4 Perceptions of changes in the environment; 6.5 Conclusion; 7 Temporary and permanent migration; 7.1 Introduction; 7.2 Basic statistics; 7.3 Regression analysis; 7.4 Conclusion; Part III Government programs
    Description / Table of Contents: 8 Early warning systems8.1 Introduction; 8.2 Early warning systems in the Sundarbans; 8.3 Basic statistics; 8.4 Regression analysis; 8.5 Conclusion; 9 Government safety nets and transfer programs; 9.1 Introduction; 9.2 Basic statistics; 9.3 Regression analysis; 9.4 Conclusion; 10 Synthesis and conclusion; 10.1 Introduction; 10.2 Impacts of cyclones on households; 10.3 Coping and adaptation; 10.4 Early warning systems and safety nets; 10.5 Temporary and permanent migration; 10.6 Conclusion; Index
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    ISBN: 9780415644020
    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource (287 p)
    Series Statement: Rethinking Globalizations
    Parallel Title: Print version Critical Rationalism and Globalization : Towards the Sociology of the Open Global Society
    DDC: 301.01
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    Abstract: Critical Rationalism and Globalization addresses how the access to critical reason enables people to shape a new social order on a global scale.This book demonstrates how the philosophy of critical rationalism contributes to the sociology of Globalization, through uncovering the role of critical reason in arriving at an agreement on common values and institutions on a global scale. It discusses how value consensus on the institutions of sovereignty and inter-state law has prepared the ground for the rise of a global system of national societies after the end of World War II. Masoud Alamuti arg
    Description / Table of Contents: Cover; Half Title; Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; List of figures; Dedication; Acknowledgement; Preface; Preface from series editor; 1. Introduction; Bibliography; 2. Epistemology and the Theory of Society; Epistemology and Rational Dialogue on Ultimate Values; Knowledge as Justified True Belief; The Dogmatic Approach to Knowledge and Rationality; The Skeptical Approach to Knowledge and Rationality; A Nonjustificational Epistemology and Rational Dialogue; Popper's Epistemology and Irrational Faith in Reason; Bartley's Epistemology and Rationality as Openness to Criticism
    Description / Table of Contents: Critical Rationalism and the Theory of SocietyCritical Rationalism and a Revisable Value Consensus; From a Closed to an Open Society: A Normative Change; Notes; Bibliography; 3. The Theory of Society and the Sociology of Globalization; The Hobbesian Problem of Social Order and Modern Sociology; Common Values and the Meaning of Social Order; Globalization and the Societal Meaning of Global Order; The Theory of Society and Globalization: Three Telling Examples; Marx's Theory of Society and Wallerstein's World-System Theory; Parsons's Sociology and Robertson's Theory of Globalization
    Description / Table of Contents: Durkheim's Sociology and Meyer's Theory of World SocietyCritical Rationalism and the Sociology of Globalization; Rational Dialogue and Common Values for Global Order; Competing Ways of Life and an Open Global Society; Notes; Bibliography; 4. Human Action for Social Change; The Central Problem in Action Theory; Thomas Hobbes and the Problem of Action Theory; Redefining the Problem of Action Theory; The Theory of Society and an Oversocialized Image of the Individual; Recognition of an Oversocialized Person; Durkheim's Theory of Society: The Image of the Individual-in-Society
    Description / Table of Contents: Weber's Theory of Society: The Place of the Individual-in-SocietyParsons's Theory of Society: The Oversocialized Image of the Person; A Justificational Epistemology and the Oversocialized Individual; Human Action Theory: A Critical-Rationalist Approach; The Problem of Action Theory and an Independent Actor; Nonjustificational Epistemology and Ethics of Openness to Criticism; The Moral Philosophy of Openness to Criticism and The Ideal Types of Human Action; The Critical-Rationalist Action Theory: Premises and Conclusion; The Action Theory and Civil Society Actors; Notes; Bibliography
    Description / Table of Contents: 5. From a Closed to an Open Society: Unfinished ModernityThe Theory of Society: A Critical-Rationalist Approach; Critical Rationalism and Sociological Theory; Critical-Rationalist Sociology: The Five Elements of Social Change; From Traditional to Liberal Society: A New Sociology of Modernity; An Epistemic Solution for Traditional Society; The Problem of a Conflict of Opinions; The Moral Ideal of Liberal Society: Epistemic Logic; From Value to Institutional Change: The English and American Revolutions; The Puritan Movement and the English Revolution; Milton and the Puritan Movement
    Description / Table of Contents: The Puritan Movement, New Values, and the End of the Monarchy
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    ISBN: 9780415540001
    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource (310 p)
    Series Statement: Routledge Research in Information Technology and Society
    Parallel Title: Print version Disorder and the Disinformation Society : The Social Dynamics of Information, Networks and Software
    DDC: 303.48/33
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    Abstract: This book is the first general social analysis that seriously considers the daily experience of information disruption and software failure within contemporary Western society. Through an investigation of informationalism, defined as a contemporary form of capitalism, it describes the social processes producing informational disorder. While most social theory sees disorder as secondary, pathological or uninteresting, this book takes disordering processes as central to social life. The book engages with theories of information society which privilege information order, offering a strong counter
    Description / Table of Contents: Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; Introduction: Information Society and Disorder; 1 Disorder and Social Theory; 2 Robustness and Order in Theories of the Information Society; 3 Computers, Systems, Instability and Failure; 4 Networks, Disorder, Unpredictability; 5 Disorders of Information; 6 Capitalism and Disinformation; 7 Software Development; 8 Software Disorder and Everyday Life; 9 Finance, Crisis and Informationalism; 10 Disorders of the Commons, Peer-to-Peer; 11 Information-Disorder in Academia; 12 Communication Technology and the Origins of Global Justice Movements
    Description / Table of Contents: Conclusion: Disinformation SocietyBibliography; Index
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    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource (168 p)
    Series Statement: Routledge Library Editions: Marxism
    Parallel Title: Print version Marxism, Class Analysis and Socialist Pluralism (RLE Marxism) : A Theoretical and Political Critique of Marxist Conceptions of Politics
    DDC: 306.2
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    Abstract: This book, first published in 1986, presents a radical challenge to socialist orthodoxy, subjecting a key component of that orthodoxy - Marxism - to sustained criticism. Les Johnston argues that Marxism cannot provide the foundations for a rigorous socialist theory or an effective socialist politics. A fundamental element of this criticism is the suggestion that the problem of 'reductionism' which has preoccupied Marxists is a red herring. Marxism's problem is not its reductionism but its theoretical incoherence. Marxism is not 'deterministic', for there is invariably an indeterminate relation
    Description / Table of Contents: Cover; Half Title; Title Page; Copyright Page; Original Title Page; Original Copyright Page; Acknowledgement; Preface; Table of Contents; Section One MARXISM, MANAGERIALISM AND CAPITALIST POSSESSION; 2 Marxism and the problem of the managers; 3 Marxism, managerialism and corporate capitalism; Section Two MARXISM, POLITICS AND THE STATE; 4 Classical Marxism and the state; 1 Introduction: Marxism and the materialist conception of politics; 5 Contemporary debates on the capitalist state; Section Three CLASS ANALYSIS AND SOCIALIST POLITICAL CALCULATION
    Description / Table of Contents: 6 Marxism and the problem of the working class7 Class and political ideology: a non-reductionist solution?; Section Four THEORETICAL AND POLITICAL CONCLUSIONS; 8 Socialist theory and socialist pluralism; Bibliography; Index
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    ISBN: 9781138829367
    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource (239 p)
    Series Statement: Routledge Studies in Civil Wars and Intra-State Conflict
    Parallel Title: Print version Armed Group Structure and Violence in Civil Wars : The Organizational Dynamics of Civilian Killing
    DDC: 303.6/4
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    Abstract: This book examines whether differences in the organizational structure of armed groups shape patterns of human rights violations in civil wars.Since the end of World War II, civil wars have been characterized by extremely high numbers of civilian casualties. However, the exact extent of civilian suffering varies across time, conflict, and geographic region. Recently, a new strand of research has emerged, primarily focused on studying the dynamics underlying the variation in civilian abuse by examining the characteristics of the armed groups and how these characteristics influence the armed gro
    Description / Table of Contents: Cover; Half Title; Title Page; Copyright Page; Dedication; Table of Contents; List of figures; List of tables; List of abbreviations; Acknowledgments; Introduction; Part I Theory - the internal organization of armed groups; 1 Principal-agent theory and armed groups; 2 The problem of adverse selection; 3 The problem of moral hazard; Part II The armed groups; 4 Web survey design; 5 Armed group analyses and results; Part III The combatants; 6 Quantitative interviews with combatants; 7 Combatant analyses and results; 8 Conclusion and discussion
    Description / Table of Contents: Appendix 1: Organizational Commitment Questionnaires (OCQ)Appendix 2: Measurement of hierarchical structure; Appendix 3: Web survey; Appendix 4: Case selection; Appendix 5: Combatant survey; Appendix 6: Consent form interview; Index
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    ISBN: 9781138829671
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    Pages: Online-Ressource (387 p)
    Series Statement: Sydney Symposium of Social Psychology
    Parallel Title: Print version Social Psychology and Politics
    DDC: 306.2
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    Abstract: Social psychology and politics are intricately related, and understanding how humans manage power and govern themselves is one of the key issues in psychology. This volume surveys the latest theoretical and empirical work on the social psychology of politics, featuring cutting-edge research from a stellar group of international researchers.It is organized into four main sections that deal with political attitudes and values; political communication and perceptions; social cognitive processes in political decisions; and the politics of intergroup behavior and social identity. The contributions
    Description / Table of Contents: Cover; Half Title; Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; Contributors; 1 The Social Psychology of Politics: Homo Politicus Revisited; Part I Political Attitudes and Values; 2 Structure and Change of Complex Political Attitudes; 3 Sacred Values and Political Life; 4 Political Orientation and Moral Conviction: A Conservative Advantage or an Equal Opportunity Motivator of Political Engagement?; 5 Fox and Not-Fox Television News Impact on Opinions on Global Warming: Selective Exposure, Not Motivated Reasoning; 6 Ideological Bias in Social Psychological Research
    Description / Table of Contents: Part II Political Perception and Communication7 The Perception of Politicians' Morality: Attacks and Defenses; 8 The Persuasive Power of Political Metaphors; 9 It's All in the Face: Facial Appearance, Political Ideology and Voters' Perceptions; 10 Explaining the Influence of Disgust on Political Judgment: A Disease-Avoidance Account; 11 Intergroup Emotions and Political Violence: The ANCODI Hypothesis; Part III Social Cognition and Democracy; 12 The Tragedy of Democratic Decision Making; 13 From Choice to Gridlock: Dynamic Bases of Constructive versus Dysfunctional Political Process
    Description / Table of Contents: 14 Politics and Psychology: A View from a Social Dilemma Perspective15 Politics and the Psychology of Power: Multi-level Dynamics in the (Im)Balances of Human Needs and Survival; 16 Social Cognition and Democracy: An Eastern European Case Study; Part IV The Politics of Identity and Intergroup Relations; 17 Inclusive Identity and the Psychology of Political Change; 18 Social Instability and Identity-Uncertainty: Fertile Ground for Political Extremism; 19 The American Color Line and Black Exceptionalism
    Description / Table of Contents: 20 The Social Psychology of Social (Dis)Harmony: Implications for Political Leadership and Public PolicyIndex
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    ISBN: 9781138903074
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    Pages: Online-Ressource (292 p)
    Series Statement: Routledge Library Editions: Terrorism and Insurgency
    Parallel Title: Print version Terrorism in Ireland (RLE: Terrorism & Insurgency)
    DDC: 303.6/25/09415
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    Abstract: When originally published in 1984, this book was the first detailed study of terrorism in Ireland. It assesses the situation in Ireland after a decade or more of violence in the North and tests some of the assumptions about the nature of terrorism and discusses the problem in a geo-political context. The authors reflect a variety of disciplines and political outlooks and no single line of argument is offered. They examine how the issue of terrorism has been dealt with by various governments, the church, the media and individuals. The book reveals the complexity of the terrorist problem and dis
    Description / Table of Contents: Cover; Half Title; Title Page; Copyright Page; Original Title Page; Original Copyright Page; Table of Contents; Notes on Contributors; Introduction; Part I: Overview ; Chapter 1: The International Dimensions of Terrorism in Ireland; Chapter 2: The United States and Terrorism in Ireland, 1969-1981; Chapter 3: Scotland, Britain, and Conflict in Ireland; Part II: Sociological, Psychological and Operational Aspects: Case Studies; Chapter 4: Women and the Troubles, 1969-1980; Chapter 5: The Psychology of Terrorism in Northern Ireland; Chapter 6: Political Assassination in the Irish Tradition
    Description / Table of Contents: Chapter 7: The Catholic Church and Revolution in Nineteenth Century IrelandPart III: Political Communication and Terrorism; Chapter 8: Water for the Fish: Terrorism and Public Opinion; Chapter 9: Northern Ireland and Fleet Street: Misreporting a Continuing Tragedy; Chapter 10: Ulster Terrorism: The U.S. Network News Coverage of Northern Ireland, 1968-1979; Chapter 11: Terrorism, The Media and the Liberal Democratic State: A Critique of the Orthodoxy; Part IV: The Future of Terrorism; Chapter 12: The Problem of Ulster Terrorism: The Historical Roots
    Description / Table of Contents: Chapter 13: The Persistence of I.R.A. TerrorismIndex
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    ISBN: 9781138831728
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    Pages: Online-Ressource (335 p)
    Parallel Title: Print version Heritage and Memory of War : Responses from Small Islands
    DDC: 303.6/6
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    Abstract: Every large nation in the world was directly or indirectly affected by the impact of war during the course of the twentieth century, and while the historical narratives of war of these nations are well known, far less is understood about how small islands coped. These islands - often not nations in their own right but small outposts of other kingdoms, countries, and nations - have been relegated to mere footnotes in history and heritage studies as interesting case studies or unimportant curiosities. Yet for many of these small islands, war had an enduring impact on their history, memory, intan
    Description / Table of Contents: Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; List of Illustrations; Introduction: Islands of War, Islands of Memory; SECTION I Islands of Memory, Islands of Community; 1 Islands, Intimate and Public Memories of the Pacific War in Fiji; 2 Fragmented Memories: The Dodecanese Islands During WWII; 3 From Poetic Anamnesis to Political Commemoration: Grassroots and Institutional Memories of the Greek Civil War on an Aegean Island; 4 Islands of War, Guardians of Memory: The Afterlife of the German Occupation in the British Channel Islands
    Description / Table of Contents: 5 Turncoat Heroes or Reckless Egotists?: The Ambivalent Memorialization of the 'Russian War' on the Dutch Island of TexelSECTION II Islands of Tourism, Landscapes of War; 6 The HMS Royal Oak and the 'Ownership of Tragedy' in Orkney; 7 ""Tingbaot Wol Wo II Long Pasifik Aelan"": Managing Memories of WWII Heritage in the Pacific; 8 Malta G.C.: War Memories and Cultural Narratives of a Mediterranean Island; 9 Scraps of Memory: Pacific War Tourism on Efate Island (Vanuatu); 10 Islands of No Return: Memory, Materiality and the Falklands War
    Description / Table of Contents: 11 The Coastwatcher Mythos: The Politics and Poetics of Solomon Islands War MemorySECTION III Islands of War, Islands of Dark and Difficult Heritage; 12 The Sacred and the Profane: Souvenir and Collecting Behaviours on the WWII Battlefields of Peleliu Island, Palau, Micronesia; 13 War Remnants of the Greek Archipelago: Persistent Memories or Fragile Heritage?; 14 Post-War Legacies in the Island of Kythera: Oblivion Versus Historical Memory; 15 Crete: Visual Memories of War; 16 Remembering War and Occupation in Post-Independence Timor-Leste; Contributors; Index
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    ISBN: 9780765616692
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    Pages: Online-Ressource (273 p)
    Parallel Title: Print version Genre Studies in Mass Media: A Handbook
    DDC: 302.23
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    Abstract: The study of various types of programming is essential for critical analysis of the media and also offers revealing perspectives on society's cultural values, preoccupations, behavior, and myths. This handbook provides a systematic, in-depth approach to the study of media genres - including reality programs, game shows, situation comedies, soap operas, film noir, news programs, and more. The author addresses such questions as: Have there been shifts in the formula of particular genres over time? What do these shifts reveal about changes in culture? How and why do new genres - such as reality T
    Description / Table of Contents: Cover; Half Title; Title Page; Copyright Page; Dedication; Table of Contents; Figures and Tables; Preface; 1. Introduction; Overview; A Media Literacy Approach to Genre Studies; 2. Process; Analysis: Function; Overview; Other Functions of Genres; Comparative Media; Overview; Audience Considerations; Lines of Inquiry; 3. Formulaic Analysis; Overview; Evolution of Formula; Formative Stage; Popular Stage; Mature Stage; Formulaic Elements; Formulaic Premise; Formulaic Structure; Formulaic Plot; Stock Characters; Formulaic Setting; Trappings; Formulaic Twists; Franchise Formulas; Lines of Inquiry
    Description / Table of Contents: Genre Analysis: Formulaic Approach 4. Historical Context; Overview; Tracing the History of a Genre; Formulaic Elements; Premise; Plot; Character; Inter-genre Historical Analysis; Lines of Inquiry; Genre Analysis: Historical Context; 5. Cultural Context; Overview; Cultural Preoccupations; Sex; Appearance; Celebrities; Crime; Worldview; International Perspectives; Inter-genre Analysis; Lines of Inquiry; Genre Analysis: Cultural Context of Celebrity Genre; 6. Ideological Approach; Overview; Genres and Social Commentary; Parody; Allegories; Modes of Analysis; Point of View; Worldview; Function
    Description / Table of Contents: Formulaic ElementsInter-genre Approach; Lines of Inquiry; Genre Analysis: Ideological Approach; 7. Production Elements; Overview; Analysis: Production Elements; Editing; Color; Lighting; Shape; Movement; Angle; Music; Lines of Inquiry; Genre Analysis: Production Elements; Production Elements in Reality TV; Production Values and the Reality TV Genre; 8. Industry Perspective; Overview; Conservative Sensibility; Derivative Programming; Industry Abuses; Cyclical Nature of Genres; Revenue Streams; Syndication; Sequels; Prequels; Ancillary Products; Franchises; Advertising; Lines of Inquiry
    Description / Table of Contents: 9. Mythic ApproachOverview; Mythic Premise; Mythic Themes; Genre and the Transmission of Cultural Myth; Historical Period; Mystical Places; Idealized Times; Cultural Beliefs; Inter-genre Analysis; Lines of Inquiry; Genre Analysis: Mythic Approach; Galaxy Quest Teaches Us Why We Should "Never Give Up, Never Surrender" Our Cultural Myths; The Andy Griffith Show as Cultural Myth; Notes; Index
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    ISBN: 9780415958035
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    Pages: Online-Ressource (321 p)
    Series Statement: Routledge Advances in Sociology
    Series Statement: Routledge Advances in Sociology Ser.
    Parallel Title: Print version Atoms, Bytes and Genes : Public Resistance and Techno-Scientific Responses
    DDC: 303.48/3
    Keywords: Technology and civilization - Public opinion ; Electronic books ; Electronic books
    Abstract: ""Atom,"" ""byte"" and ""gene"" are metonymies for techno-scientific developments of the 20th century: nuclear power, computing and genetic engineering. Resistance continues to challenge these developments in public opinion. This book traces historical debates over atoms, bytes and genes which raised controversy with consequences, and argues that public opinion is a factor of the development of modern techno-science. The level and scope of public controversy is an index of resistance, examined here with a ""pain analogy"" which shows that just as pain impacts movement, resistance impacts techn
    Description / Table of Contents: Cover; Title; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; List of Figures; List of Tables; List of Excursions; Foreword; Acknowledgments; 1 Introduction: Movement Redirected by Resistance; 2 Mobilising a Different Future; 3 The Atom: Bombs and Power; 4 Environment, Safety and Sustainability; 5 Ten Propositions on Learning from Resistance; 6 The ""Bytes"" of Mainframes, PC and Social Media; 7 Public Opinion and Its Discontents; 8 Genes, Biotechnology and Genomics; 9 Some Further Observations on Resistance; Appendix 1: Notes on Social Movement and Social Influence
    Description / Table of Contents: Appendix 2: Chronologies of Atoms, Bytes and GenesReferences; Index
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    ISBN: 9781138843448
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    Pages: Online-Ressource (392 p)
    Series Statement: Routledge Library Editions: Folklore
    Parallel Title: Print version Interpreting Legend (RLE Folklore) : Danish Storytellers and their Repertoires
    DDC: 398.09489
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    Abstract: 〈P〉This book, first published in 1994, sets 'repertoire against raconteur' in order to explore one of the world's largest collections of folk literature. The author's findings, and his creative and synthetic methodologies, enhance greatly our understanding of the world of the legend, and especially the basic question of 'Who tells what to whom in the form of a legend and why?' This work is an in-depth exploration of rural Denmark, and provides us with an excellent vantage point from which to understand legends in their cultural contexts and within the lives of their tellers.〈/P〉
    Description / Table of Contents: Cover; Half Title ; Title Page; Copyright Page; Original Title Page; Original Copyright Page; Dedication; Table of Contents; Foreword; Preface; 1 Legends and Legend Scholarship; 2 Who, What, Why: A Methodology for Interpreting Legend; 3 Who, To Whom: Kristensen's Collection and Informants; 4 Exceptional Legend Informants and Their Repertoires; Table of Informants; Analysis of Informant Repertoires; 5 The Life and Legends of a Confirmed Bachelor: Peder Johansen's Repertoire; 6 Upward Mobility and Legend: Kirsten Marie Pedersdatter's Repertoire
    Description / Table of Contents: 7 Spinning Yarn(s): Jens Peter Pedersen's Repertoire8 Conclusion; Appendix; Bibliography; Index
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    ISBN: 9781138853850
    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource (291 p)
    Edition: 5th ed
    Parallel Title: Print version Social Linguistics and Literacies : Ideology in Discourses
    DDC: 306.44
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    Abstract: In its first edition, Social Linguistics and Literacies was a major contribution to the emerging interdisciplinary field of sociocultural approaches to language and literacy, and was one of the founding texts of the 'New Literacy Studies'.This book serves as a classic introduction to the study of language, learning and literacy in their social, cultural and political contexts. It shows how contemporary sociocultural approaches to language and literacy emerged and:Engages with topics such as orality and literacy, the history of literacy, the nature of discourse analysis and social theories of m
    Description / Table of Contents: Cover; Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; List of Tables; Introduction; 1 Ideology; 2 Meaning; 3 Literacy crises; 4 Literacy as social; 5 Orality and literacy: the great divide; 6 The literacy myth and the history of literacy; 7 The capacities of literacy and Paulo Freire; 8 The New Literacy Studies; 9 Social languages, situated meanings and cultural models; 10 Cultural models/figured worlds in action; 11 Discourse analysis; 12 Discourse analysis: stories go to school; 13 Discourses and literacies; 14 More on (big 'D') Discourses; 15 Language, individuals and Discourses
    Description / Table of Contents: 16 Discourses, individuals and performances17 Science and the lifeworld; Conclusion; References; Index
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    ISBN: 9781138022935
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    Pages: Online-Ressource (434 p)
    Series Statement: Genetics and Society
    Series Statement: Genetics and Society Ser.
    Parallel Title: Print version Knowing New Biotechnologies : Social Aspects of Technological Convergence
    DDC: 512.24
    Keywords: SOCIAL SCIENCE / General ; Electronic books
    Abstract: The areas of personal genomics and citizen science draw on - and bring together - different cultures of producing and managing knowledge and meaning. They also cross local and global boundaries, are subjects and objects of transformation and mobility of research practices, evaluation and multi-stakeholder groups. Thirdly, they draw on logics of 'convergence': new links between, and new kinds of, stakeholders, spaces, knowledge, practices, challenges and opportunities. This themed collection of essays from nationally and internationally leading scholars and commentators advances and widens curr
    Description / Table of Contents: Cover; Half Title; Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; List of figures; List of contributors; Acknowledgement; Part I: Introduction; 1. An introduction to social convergences; Introduction; Understanding social convergences; Book overview; References; 2. Distinguishing the umbrella promise of Converging Technology from the dynamics of Technology Convergence; Introduction; Converging Technologies and NBIC as policy-level visions; Technology convergence in new fields of research and innovation; Technology convergence in research and product development; Concluding remarks; Notes
    Description / Table of Contents: ReferencesPart II: Dynamics and logics; 3. Why so many promises? The economy of scientific promises and its ambivalences; Introduction; Hype/disillusionment patterns; Contemporary features of scientific promises; The economy of promises and the regime of research; Convergence: matters of definition, matters of strategies; Nanotechnology or 'scientific promises as a literary genre'; Discussion; Notes; References; 4. Logics of convergence in NBIC and personal genomics; Introduction; 'Weak' and 'strong' analytical concepts of convergence; Promise, uncertainty and affect
    Description / Table of Contents: Convergence of a third kind: personal genomicsConclusion; References; 5. The convergence of direct-to-consumer genetic testing companies and biobanking activities: the example of 23andMe; Introduction; Direct-to-consumer genetic testing; DTC GT companies as biobanks and their research activities; Discussion and conclusion; Acknowledgements; Note; References; Part III: Governance; 6. The messiness of convergence: remarks on the roles of two visions of the future; Introduction; Going back to Bernal, inevitably; Convergence and its discontents
    Description / Table of Contents: Conclusion: towards rational governance of visionary ideas?References; 7. Mapping the UK government's genome: analysing convergence in UK policy one decade into the twenty-first century; Introduction; The study: methods and descriptive observations; Discussion and wider reflection on results; Acknowledgements; Notes; References; 8. Diagonal convergences: genetic testing, governance, and globalization; Introduction; Two philosophical approaches; 'Genetic exceptionalism', or the private management of personal data; DTCGT: a regulatory conundrum; Non-invasive prenatal diagnosis (NIPD)
    Description / Table of Contents: Converging technologies, normativity, and sociocultural differencesNotes; References; Part IV: Citizens, amateurs, and democratization; 9. Do-it-yourself biology, garage biology, and kitchen science: a feminist analysis of bio-making narratives; Introduction; Promissory democratization narrative, or hype?; Reconfigured narratives: kitchen science 2.0, Ms. Science, and feminist biohealth hacker; Conclusion: feminist thoughts on a bio-making future; References; 10. Amateurization and re-materialization in biology: opening up scientific equipment; Introduction; Amateur biology and open source
    Description / Table of Contents: Reassembling and circumventing scientific equipment
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    ISBN: 9780415738484
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    Pages: Online-Ressource (199 p)
    Series Statement: Routledge Studies in Crime and Society
    Parallel Title: Print version Why Men Buy Sex : Examining clients of sex workers
    DDC: 306.70811
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    Abstract: Sex work has been a contentious issue in a variety of ways throughout history - socially, morally, ethically, religiously and politically. Traditionally noted as one of the oldest professions in the world, sex work has commonly been demonised and is often viewed as a social disgrace. While sex work involves both providers of sexual services, most commonly women, and purchasers of sexual services, most commonly men, providers have attracted the most social commentary. Recent research shows that a limited number of studies have been conducted since 1990 concerning men who procure sexual services
    Description / Table of Contents: Cover; Half Title; Title Page; Copyright Page; Dedication; Table of Contents; List of figures; List of tables; Acknowledgements; List of abbreviations; Part I Theorising sex work and the procurement of sexual services; Introduction; Understanding why humans have sex; Current theorising in men who procure sexual services: a brief introduction; Aim of this study; The organisation of the book; Conclusion; 1 Deconstructing sexuality and understanding the procurement of sex; Evolutionary psychology and sex; Understanding the influence of culture on sex
    Description / Table of Contents: Masculinity and understanding men who procure sexual servicesConclusion; 2 Understanding sex work 1: deviant and immoral; Deviance and its origins; Society's influence on the sex work industry; Applying deviancy and immorality to contemporary understanding of men's procurement of sexual services; Feminism, sex work, deviancy and immorality; Law criminalising sex work; Australian law and sex work; Understanding the NSW context; Conclusion; 3 Understanding sex work 2: normative values and commodity; Sex work as 'work'; Theories of social exchange and the purchasing of sexual services
    Description / Table of Contents: Applying social exchange to sex workEmotions, intimacy and the procurement of sexual services; Theories of intimacy; The Internet, intimacy and sex work; Behavioural scripts and their links to intimate relationships; Sexual scripts and the procurement of sexual services; Sex work as a normative function of society?; Making sense of men's procurement of sexual services: introducing the SAPSS model; Conclusion; Part II Examining men who procure sexual services; Introduction; The empirical research underpinning this volume; The organisation of Part II
    Description / Table of Contents: 4 Contextualising the cohort: the personal and social characteristics of men who procure sexual servicesThe demographics of men who procure sexual services; Disclosing the procurement of sexual services: a qualitative understanding; Public perception of men who procure sexual services: a qualitative understanding; Criminalising sex work in NSW, Australia: a qualitative understanding; Conclusion; 5 The '5WH' of men's procurement of sexual services; The logistics of men's procurement of sexual services; Men's reasons for procuring sexual services - the fifth what
    Description / Table of Contents: Defining and examining the reasons for procuring sexual servicesConclusion; 6 Examining why men procure sexual services; Early life experiences and the impact on procurement; Why men procure sexual services for the first time: the men's perspective; Fulfilment of fantasies and fetishes; Male bonding and the expression of masculinity; Sex as a commodity?; First time reasons for the procurement of sexual services: the sex worker perspective; The loss of virginity and ease of the transaction; The need to seek affection, regardless of age, regardless of circumstance
    Description / Table of Contents: First time reasons for the procurement of sexual services: the interest groups' perspectives
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    ISBN: 9781848932623
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    Pages: Online-Ressource (239 p)
    Series Statement: The Enlightenment World
    Parallel Title: Print version Sociability and Cosmopolitanism : Social Bonds on the Fringes of the Enlightenment
    DDC: 306.09409033
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    Abstract: This collection of essays expands the focus of Enlightenment studies to include countries outside the core nations of France, Germany and Britain. Notions of sociability and cosmopolitanism are explored as ways in which people sought to improve society
    Description / Table of Contents: Cover; Half Title; Title page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; Acknowledgements; List of Contributors; 1 Introduction; Part I: European Peripheries; 2 Science, Religion and Sociability in Early Eighteenth-Century Irish Thought; 3 Visualizing Spain's Enlightenment: The Marginal Universality of Deafness; 4 Sociability and Cosmopolitanism in Eighteenth-Century Venice: European Travellers and Venetian Women's Casinos; Part II: Eurasian Borders; 5 At Home in a World of Fictions: Commercial Sociability in Montequieu's Persian Letters
    Description / Table of Contents: 6 Prince M. M. Shcherbatov's Critique of the 'Open Table' and the Dynamics of Russian SociabilityPart III: The Atlantic World; 7 Benjamin Vaughan on Commerce and International Harmony in the Eighteenth Century; 8 'Self-Created Societies': Sociability and Statehood in the Pittsburgh Enlightenment; 9 The Margins of Enlightenment: Benjamin Rush, the Rural World and Sociability in Post-Revolutionary Pennsylvania; Notes; Works Cited; Index
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    ISBN: 9781848933026
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    Pages: Online-Ressource (225 p)
    Series Statement: ""The Body, Gender and Culture
    Parallel Title: Print version Sex, Identity and Hermaphrodites in Iberia, 1500-1800
    DDC: 306.76850946
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    Abstract: Early modern European thought held that men and women were essentially the same. During the seventeenth century, medical and legal arguments began to turn against this 'one-sex' model, with hermaphroditism seen as a medieval superstition. This book traces this change in Iberia in comparison to the earlier shift in thought in northern Europe
    Description / Table of Contents: Cover; Half Title; Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; Acknowledgements; Introduction: Sex, Gender and Historicity; 1 Marvels, Monsters and Prodigies: Hermaphrodites as Natural Phenomena in Spain, 1500-1700; 2 Sexual Transgression and Hermaphroditism: The 'New World' and Imperial Subjectivity; 3 The Expulsion of the Marvellous: The Decline of the 'One-Sex' Model, 1750-1830; 4 Hermaphroditism in Portugal; Conclusion; Notes; Works Cited; Index
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    ISBN: 9781138918917
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    Series Statement: Routledge Studies in Conflict, Security and Technology
    Parallel Title: Print version International Conflict and Cyberspace Superiority : Theory and Practice
    DDC: 303.48/34
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    Abstract: This book examines cyberspace superiority in nation-state conflict from both a theoretical and a practical perspective. This volume analyses superiority concepts from the domains of land, maritime, and air to build a model that can be applied to cyberspace. Eight different cyberspace conflicts between nation states are examined and the resulting analysis is combined with theoretical concepts to present the reader with a conclusion. Case studies include the conflict between Russia and Estonia (2007), North Korea and the US and South Korea (2009) and Saudi Arabia and Iran in the Aramco attack (2
    Description / Table of Contents: Cover; Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; List of Figures; List of Tables; 1 Introduction; 2 Elements of Domain Superiority from the Other Domains; 3 Cyberspace Domain Characteristics; 4 Local Cyberspace Superiority; 5 Measuring Cyberspace Superiority; 6 Cyberspace Superiority Case Studies; 7 Conclusion; Appendix A: Coding of Measurement Inputs; Appendix B: Cyberspace Superiority Case Study Measurement; Index
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    ISBN: 9780765680969
    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource (860 p)
    Parallel Title: Print version The Modern World : ""Civilizations of Africa"", ""Civilizations of Europe"", ""Civilizations of the Americas"", ""Civilizations of the Middle East and Southwest Asia"", ""Civilizations of Asia and the Pacific
    DDC: 306.03
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    Abstract: Designed to meet the curriculum needs for students from grades 7 to 12, this five-volume encyclopedia explores world history from approximately 5000 C.E. to the present. Organized alphabetically within geographical volumes on Africa, Europe, the Americas, the Middle East and Southwest Asia, and Asia and the Pacific, entries cover the social, political, scientific and technological, economic, and cultural events and developments that shaped the modern world.Each volume includes articles on history, government, and warfare; the development of ideas and the growth of art and architecture; religio
    Description / Table of Contents: Cover; Half Title; Title; Copyright; Contents; List of Illustrations; Topic Finder (Vol. 1); Topic Finder (Vol. 2); Topic Finder (Vol. 3); Topic Finder (Vol. 4); Topic Finder (Vol. 5); Preface; The Most Diverse Continent; Europe: A Peninsula of Peninsulas; The New Continents; A Crossroads of Ancient Lands and Contemporary Issues; Modern Challenges in Ancient Lands; Map of Modern Africa; Map of Modern Europe; Map of the Modern Americas; Map of the Modern Middle East and Southwest Asia; Map of Modern Asia and the Pacific; African Union; Agriculture; Algeria; Apartheid
    Description / Table of Contents: GREAT LIVES: Nelson MandelaArt and Architecture; Aswan High Dam; Boer War; British Colonies in Africa; GREAT LIVES: Cecil Rhodes; Civil Wars; INTO THE TWENTY-FIRST CENTURY: Blood Diamonds; Colonization; TURNING POINT: Berlin Conference of 1884-1885; Communist Movements; Congo; GREAT LIVES: Mobutu Sese Seko; Culture and Traditions; Democratic Movements; Drought; Economic Development and Trade; Egypt; GREAT LIVES: Muhammad Ali Pasha; GREAT LIVES: Gamal Abdel Nasser; Environmental Issues; Eritrea; Ethiopia; GREAT LIVES: Haile Selassie; GREAT LIVES: Menelik II; Famine; French West Africa
    Description / Table of Contents: GREAT LIVES: Ahmed Sékou TouréGerman Colonies; Imperialism; Independence Movements; Italian Colonies; TURNING POINT: The Treaty of Wuchale; INTO THE TWENTY-FIRST CENTURY: Return of the Aksum Obelisk; Language; Liberia; INTO THE TWENTY-FIRST CENTURY: Al-Qaeda in Africa; Literature and Writing; Migration; Nigeria; TURNING POINT: Biafran War, 1967-1970; Pan-African Movement; Portuguese Colonies; Refugees; Religion; INTO THE TWENTY-FIRST CENTURY: Islamic Politics in Africa; Rwanda; Slavery and the Slave Trade; Society; INTO THE TWENTY-FIRST CENTURY: AIDS in Africa; Somalia; South Africa
    Description / Table of Contents: MODERN WEAPONS: Nuclear TestingTURNING POINT: 1994 Free Elections; Sudan; INTO THE TWENTY-FIRST CENTURY: Darfur; Suez Canal; Technology and Inventions; Tools and Weapons; MODERN WEAPONS:The Military Innovations of Shaka Zulu; MODERN WEAPONS: NeoStead 2000; Tutsis and Hutus; Uganda; GREAT LIVES: Idi Amin; Absolutism; Agriculture; TURNING POINT: The Enclosure Movement; Andalusia (Muslim Spain); Art and Architecture; TURNING POINT: Flying Buttresses; Austria-Hungary; Balance of Power; Charlemagne (ca. 748-814); Christianity; TURNING POINT: Challenges to Faith; Cities and Urbanization; Cold War
    Description / Table of Contents: CommunismGREAT LIVES: Karl Marx; Crusades; MODERN WEAPONS: Greek Fire; Culture and Traditions; TURNING POINT: The Counter-Reformation; Democracy and Democratic Movements; Economic Development and Trade; INTO THE TWENTY-FIRST CENTURY: European Union; Enlightenment; Environmental Issues; INTO THE TWENTY-FIRST CENTURY: The Chernobyl Disaster; Exploration; Fascism/Nazism; Feudalism; France; Franks; French Revolution (1789-1799); Germany; GREAT LIVES: Otto von Bismarck; Glasnost; Great Britain; Holocaust; Holy Roman Empire; Industrialization
    Description / Table of Contents: INTO THE 21ST CENTURY: West Germany's Industrial Miracle
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    ISBN: 9781563247255
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    Parallel Title: Print version Voices from the Japanese Women's Movement
    DDC: 305.42
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    Abstract: An insider's view of the world of contemporary Japanese women
    Description / Table of Contents: Cover; Half Title; Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; About the Contributors; Foreword; Introduction: Looking Toward Beijing; I. The Women's Movement; 1. Issues for Japanese Feminism; 2. The Women's Movement: Progress and Obstacles; 3. The Movement Today: Difficult but Critical Issues; II. Issues Facing Women; 4. Economic Development and Asian Women ; 5. Ten Years Under the Equal Employment Opportunity Law; 6. Policies of the Japanese Government Toward Women; 7. Military Sexual Slavery and the Women'sMovement; 8. Commodified Sex: Japan's Pornographic Culture
    Description / Table of Contents: 9. Promoting Prostitution10. The Trafficking of Women; 11. In Search of Ruby Moreno; 12. Lesbians and Sexual Self-Determination; 13. The Past and Future of Unai, Sisters in Okinawa; 14. Women and Alternatives to Agricultural Decline; III. Voices of Women; 15. Commitments to Women's and Buraku Issues; 16. Looking at Sexual Slavery from a Zainichi Perspective; 17. My Work as an Ainu Woman; 18. Mizura: Providing Service to Women in Yokomaha; 19. Promoting Women's Participation in Yokohama; 20. Photography from a Woman's Perspective; 21. A Cooperative Restaurant on the Miura Coast
    Description / Table of Contents: 22. A Women's Space in Sapporo23. Apron: A Restaurant Run by Women; 24. Working at a Consumer Cooperative; 25. Fighting Back Against Serving Tea; 26. From Child-Care to Local Politics; Index
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    ISBN: 9781563249488
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    Pages: Online-Ressource (262 p)
    Parallel Title: Print version Social Philosophy
    DDC: 303.3/72
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    Abstract: This accessible introductory text discusses how people in a pluralistic society such as ours can accept a common social ethic - a publicly justified morality. It presents analyses of the basic concepts, including justifications of liberty, harm to others, private property rights, distributive justice, environmental harms, help to others and offensive behaviour. Gaus acquaints the reader with the major figures in social philosophy - John Stuart Mill, Jeremy Bentham, Thomas Hobbes, John Locke, David Hume, John Rawls, David Gauthier, and Joel Feinberg - as well as recent communitarian philosopher
    Description / Table of Contents: Cover; Half Title; Series Page; Title Page; Copyright Page; Dedication; Table of Contents; Series Foreword; Preface; Part I. The Idea of a Public Morality; Chapter 1. Moral Authoritarianism and Relativism; 1.1 Morality as Liberty-limiting Demands; 1.2 The Suspicion That Morality Is Authoritarian; 1.3 Relativism: The Easy Way Out?; 1.4 Public Morality and Cooperation; 1.5 Summary; Chapter 2. Public Justification; 2.1 Public Justification as Non-authoritarian; 2.2 Actual Assent Views of Public Justification; 2.3 Justification Among Purely Rational People
    Description / Table of Contents: 2.4 Public Justification and Reasonableness2.5 Consensus and Convergence Justifications; 2.6 Summary; Chapter 3. Value-promoting Public Moralities; 3.1 Teleological Ethics; 3.2 Competing Values and Public Justification; 3.3 The First Reply: Wide Consensus on Basic Goods; 3.4 The Second Reply: Communitarianism; 3.5 Summary; Chapter 4. Utilitarianism as a Public Morality; 4.1 Can Teleological Ethics Be Rescued from the Problem of Reasonable Pluralism?; 4.2 Jeremy Bentham and Utilitarianism; 4.3 Want-satisfaction Utilitarianism
    Description / Table of Contents: 4.4 The Problems of Interpersonal Comparisons and Aggregating Preferences4.5 Is Value Impersonal?; 4.6 Non-teleological Utilitarianism; 4.7 Utilitarianism as a Public Philosophy; 4.8 Summary; Chapter 5. Strong Contractualism; 5.1 Moral Contractualism; 5.2 Simple Neo-Hobbesianism; 5.3 Gauthier's Reformulation of Hobbesian Moral Contractualism; 5.4 Is Strong Contractualism Really About Social Morality?; 5.5 Summary; Chapter 6. Weak Contractualism; 6.1 Justice as Fairness; 6.2 Two Key Criticisms of Rawls's Contractual Theory; 6.3 Liberal Contractualism; 6.4 Summary
    Description / Table of Contents: Part II. A Framework for Public MoralityChapter 7. Liberty; 7.1 The Liberal Principle; 7.2 Mill's Case for Liberty of Action; 7.3 Autonomy; 7.4 Summary; Chapter 8. The Harm Principle; 8.1 Harms and Interests; 8.2 Psychological Harms; 8.3 Is It Always a Harm to Set Back an Interest?; 8.4 Risk of Harm; 8.5 Harmful Acts and Omissions; 8.6 Summary; Chapter 9. Property; 9.1 Property Rights and Harm; 9.2 Lockean Theory and the Proviso; 9.3 Meeting the Proviso: Compensation for Losses; 9.4 Desert, Distributive Justice, and Property; 9.5 Summary; Chapter 10. Public Harms and Common Goods
    Description / Table of Contents: 10.1 Public Bads10.2 The Public Goods Principle; 10.3 Common Goods; 10.4 Summary; Chapter 11. Two Quasi-Millian Principles; 11.1 Liberal Morality; 11.2 Paternalism; 11.3 Offense; 11.4 Summary; Notes; Index; About the Author
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    ISBN: 9781138794412
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    Pages: Online-Ressource (305 p)
    Edition: 2nd ed
    Series Statement: Routledge Perspectives on Development
    Parallel Title: Print version Population and Development
    DDC: 304.609172/4
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    Abstract: The new edition of Population and Development offers an up-to-date perspective on one of the critical issues at the heart of the problems of development for all countries, and especially those that seek to implement major economic and social change: the reflexive relationships between a country's population and its development. How does population size, distribution, age structure and skill base affect development patterns and prospects? How has global development been affected by regional population change? Retaining the structure of the well-received first edition, the book has been substant
    Description / Table of Contents: Cover; Title Page; Copyright Page; Dedication; Table of Contents; List of plates; List of figures; List of tables; List of boxes; Acknowledgements; List of abbreviations; Introduction: population is a development issue; The scope of population/development relationships; Development Studies and Population Studies; The growth of Development Studies; The growth of Population Studies; Development Studies and Population Studies: an integrated view; Sources for the study of population and development; 1 Population and development: the core issues in historical perspective; Global population change
    Description / Table of Contents: Global developmentRegional contexts of population/development interactions; Western Europe; North and South America; Asia and the Pacific; The Middle East and North Africa; Sub-Saharan Africa; Conclusion; 2 How population affects development: Malthus and Boserup; Malthus and Malthusianism; Neo-Malthusianism; The limits to neo-Malthusianism; Alternative views on the population/resource balance; Julian Simon and Population: The Ultimate Resource; Ester Boserup and intensification of agricultural production; Farmers' responses to population growth
    Description / Table of Contents: 3 How development affects population: demographic and mobility transitionsDemographic transition theory; High-level equilibrium; Rising, then falling, rates of population growth in Western Europe; Low-level equilibrium; Demographic transition theory and Developing Countries; The Demographic Transition Model: an empirical generalisation; The global experience; What has driven the demographic transition?; Mobility, urban and epidemiological transitions; Transition theory and the future; Conclusion; 4 Mortality, disease and development; Global mortality decline
    Description / Table of Contents: Mortality and disease: epidemiological transitionMortality decline and medical interventions; Mortality decline and development; Health driven or development driven mortality declines?; 5 Fertility, culture and development; Global fertility change; Conceptualising fertility; Explaining fertility decline; Three controversial questions; Is fertility decline a global diffusion process?; Is development the best contraceptive?; Can there be a crisis-led fertility decline?; 6 Migration and development; Conceptualising migration; Migration theory; Patterns of movement; Causes of movement
    Description / Table of Contents: Impacts of movementInternal migration; Rural-urban migration and urbanisation; Rural-rural migration and resettlement; International migration; South-South migration; South-North migration; Transnational families and migration; Does migration widen or narrow disparities between source and destination?; Conclusion; 7 Population age structures and development; Age and development; Youthful populations; Ageing populations; A demographic dividend?; Conclusions; 8 Human resource development: education, training and knowledge; Education and schooling for HRD; Knowledge and HRD; Conclusion
    Description / Table of Contents: 9 Population policies and planning
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    ISBN: 9781138845213
    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource (229 p)
    Series Statement: Routledge Studies in Social and Political Thought
    Parallel Title: Print version Authenticity, Autonomy and Multiculturalism
    DDC: 305.8
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    Abstract: The concept of ""authenticity"" enters multicultural politics in three distinct but interrelated senses: as an ideal of individual and group identity that commands recognition by others; as a condition of individuals' autonomy that bestows legitimacy on their values, beliefs and preferences as being their own; and as a form of cultural pedigree that bestows legitimacy on particular beliefs and practices (commonly called ""cultural authenticity""). In each case, the authenticity idea is called on to anchor or legitimate claims to some kind of public recognition. The considerable work asked of t
    Description / Table of Contents: Cover; Half Title; Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; List of contributors; Acknowledgement; 1. Authenticity and the multiculturalism debates; Identity authenticity; Preference authenticity; Cultural authenticity; Acknowledgments; Notes; References; Part I: Individual autonomy andcultural identity; 2. Autonomy and social disorientation; Autonomy, authenticity and practical identities; The social structure of practical identities; Practical identities and social disorientation; Social identities and reorientation; Conclusions: recognition, respect and self-constitution
    Description / Table of Contents: AcknowledgmentsNotes; References; 3. Autonomy and multiculturalism; Lack-of-autonomy judgments; Autonomy and liberalism; The practice of autonomy; Some possible objections; Conclusion; Note; References; 4. Belief, autonomy and responsibility: The case of indirect religious discrimination; Indirect religious discrimination; Choosing to believe; Freedom of belief and its implications; Beliefs and bearing responsibility for consequences; The case for providing against indirect religious discrimination; Acknowledgments; Notes; References; Part II: Debating preference andcultural authenticity
    Description / Table of Contents: 5. Against authenticityThe dangers of authenticity; R (on the application of Begum) v. Governors of Denbigh High School; Religion and culture; Conclusion; Notes; References; 6. Individual or collective autonomy and/or cultural authenticity?: In defense of minimalism; Individual autonomy and authenticity; Collective autonomy and cultural authenticity; Authenticity as honesty or sincerity: how to judge the authenticity of the individual's cultural commitments or choices?; Conclusion; Acknowledgments; Notes; References; 7. Authenticity and the third-person perspective; A brief genealogy
    Description / Table of Contents: Conceptions of authenticityAuthenticity and the third-person perspective; Conclusion; Acknowledgments; Notes; References; Part III: Pluralizing authenticity; 8. What is wrong with a liberal assessment of religious authenticity?; Subjective authenticity and liberal multicultural theory; Subjective authenticity in practice; Objective authenticity in practice; Beyond authenticity? Compelling interests and dialogical approaches; Conclusion; Notes; References; 9. Analyzing "authenticity" in the litigation of cultural claims: Reflections on the role of expertise
    Description / Table of Contents: The concepts of culture and authenticityCultural evidence in the courtroom: anthropologists as experts; How the experts view legal processes; Judicial assessment of the "authenticity" of cultural traditions; Normative considerations; Conclusion; Notes; References; 10. Authenticity and Jewish self-hatred; The concept of Jewish self-hatred; The charge of Jewish self-hatred in debates about Israeli policies; Alienation and authenticity; Some moral complexities of debates over Israeli policies; Notes; References; Index
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    ISBN: 9781138928343
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    Pages: Online-Ressource (174 p)
    Series Statement: Routledge Library Editions: Social and Cultural Anthropology
    Parallel Title: Print version Rationality and Relativism : In Search of a Philosophy and History of Anthropology
    DDC: 306.01
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    Abstract: Anthropology revolves round answers to problems about the nature, development and unity of mankind; problems that are both philosophical and scientific. In this book, first published in 1984, Professor Jarvie applies Popper's philosophy of science to understanding the history and theory of anthropology. Jarvie describes how the ancient view that the aim of science and philosophy was to get at the truth is challenged in anthropology by the doctrine of cultural relativism; that is, that truth varies with the cultural framework. He shows how philosophers as various as Peter Winch, W.V.O. Quine, W
    Description / Table of Contents: Cover; Half Title; Title; Copyright; Original Title; Original Copyright; Contents; Preface; Acknowledgments; Prologue Metaphysical anthropology; P.1 The fundamental problems of anthropology; P.2 The methodology of problems; P.3 Sketchy metaphysical history; Part One Rationality; 1.1 The problem stated; 1.2 Ideas about reason and rationality; 1.3 Reduction of variation; 1.4 Anthropology and rationality; 1.5 The centrality of belief and science; 1.6 Anti-cognitive views of magic and religion; 1.7 Digression: rationality and racialism; 1.8 Cargo cults as an illustration
    Description / Table of Contents: 1.9 Weak and strong rationality1.10 Further problems with cognitive interpretations; 1.11 Views of science; 1.12 Rationality as rational thinking; 1.13 Rationality as rational belief; 1.14 Science as the supreme embodiment of rationality; Part Two Relativism; 2.1 Relativism, moral and cognitive; 2.2 Herskovits on method and practice; 2.3 Relativism as a philosophy; 2.4 The case for and against relativism; 2.5 Relativism and diversity; Part Three Rationality and relativism; 3.1 Relativism in its cognitive dimension; 3.2 The connection of weak absolutism with rationality
    Description / Table of Contents: 3.3 The connection of weak absolutism with moralityEpilogue Anthropology and socio-cultural transcendence; E.1 Reflections; E.2 Recollections; E.3 Lessons; Notes; Bibliography; Index of names; Index of subjects
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    ISBN: 9781138843936
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    Pages: Online-Ressource (391 p)
    Series Statement: Routledge Library Editions: Folklore
    Parallel Title: Print version Studies in Folk Life (RLE Folklore) : Essays in Honour of Iorwerth C. Peate
    DDC: 808.84
    Keywords: Peate, Iorewerth Cyfeiliog ; 1901- ; Folklore ; Wales ; Ethnology ; Wales ; Social life and customs ; Electronic books ; Electronic books
    Abstract: This collection, first published in 1969, presents essays written by twenty of the most eminent scholars from the British Isles and Europe on aspects of folk life studies. The essays are written in honour of Dr Iorwerth C. Peate, Curator of the Welsh Folk Museum and doyen of folk life studies in Britain, to mark his retirement as the first President of the Society for Folk Life Studies. In the present book all the various aspects of folk life, from linguistics to sociology, from architecture to agrarian history, are covered, reflecting the wide interests of Dr Peate and his valuable contributi
    Description / Table of Contents: Cover; Half Title ; Title Page; Copyright Page; Original Title Page; Original Copyright Page; Table of Contents; List of plates; List of figures; Introduction; 1. The Gwerin of Wales; 2. The Institute for Dialect and Folklore Research in Uppsala; 3. The Welsh Contribution to the Development of the Ulster Folk Museum; 4. Folk Life Studies in East Anglia; 5. Once upon a Time; 6. The Concept of Diffusion in its Application to Vernacular Building; 7. Sod and Turf Houses in Ireland; 8. Representations of Houses on some Irish Maps of c. 1600; 9. Megalithic Building Survivals
    Description / Table of Contents: 10. Historical Aspects of Peat-cutting in Wales11. Fenland Peat; 12. Sea Sand and Shells as Manure; 13. Sheep in North Ronaldsay, Orkney; 14. The Welsh Plough Team to 1600; 15. The 'Rope-wood' and its European Distribution; 16. The Tweed Salmon Coble; 17. The 'great wheel' in the Scandinavian Countries; 18. Investigation of an Industry and its Products; 19. The Supernatural in Welsh Place-names; 20. Prefixed Pronominal Forms in a Welsh Dialect; Appendix; List of Contributors; List of Subscribers; Bibliography of Books and Papers
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    ISBN: 9780873325202
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    Parallel Title: Print version Memoirs of an Indian Woman
    DDC: 305.4/0954/14092
    Keywords: Mazumdar, Shudha ; Women ; India ; Bengal ; Biography ; Electronic books
    Abstract: This vivid memoir recounts the experience of Shudha Mazumdar, a woman born at the turn of the century to Indian parents whose ideas on child rearing differed greatly. Her father, a wealthy Europeanized Zamindar, tried to instill Western values, while Shudha's mother emphasized the traditional, even going as far as arranging a marriage for her daughter when she was thirteen. Although true to Indian traditions, Shudha eventually manifested her father's influence by becoming a published writer, by becoming a member of a number of social service organizations, and by serving as the Indian Delegate
    Description / Table of Contents: Cover; Half Title; Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; Preface; Introduction; Chapter 1; Chapter 2; Chapter 3; Chapter 4; Chapter 5; Chapter 6; Chapter 7; Chapter 8; Chapter 9; Chapter 10; Chapter 11; Chapter 12; Chapter 13; Chapter 14; Chapter 15; Chapter 16; Chapter 17; Epilogue; Glossary; Index
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    ISBN: 9780765613356
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    Pages: Online-Ressource (177 p)
    Parallel Title: Print version Jihad in Paradise: Islam and Politics in Southeast Asia
    DDC: 303.6/25/088297/0959
    Keywords: Jamaah Islamiyah (Indonesia) ; Jemaah Islamiyah (Singapore) ; Jihad ; Terrorism ; Religious aspects ; Islam ; Terrorism ; Southeast Asia ; Electronic books ; Electronic books ; Electronic books
    Abstract: Written in an accessible, journalistic style, Jihad in Paradise focuses on Southeast Asia's struggle to deal with Islamic extremists and terrorism at the hands of Jemah Islamiyah, al Qaeda's Southeast Asian arm. Although the book gives particular attention to Singapore's attempts to deal with these issues, the story extends into Malaysia, Indonesia, and the Philippines. All of these countries have significant Muslim populations, and recent violent events have affected the business environment, tourism, and the region's tradition of religious tolerance. The author draws on personal interviews w
    Description / Table of Contents: Cover; Half Title; Title Page; Copyright Page; Dedication; Table of Contents; Foreword; Acknowledgments; Introduction; 1. Arrival and Discovery; 2. Sources of Jihad; 3. Terror in Singapore; 4. To Bali and Back; 5. Malaysia and Iraq; 6. Looking Forward; Notes; Index
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    ISBN: 9781563248399
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    Parallel Title: Print version Peasants without the Party: Grassroots Movements in Twentieth Century China
    DDC: 305.5/633/09510904
    Keywords: Peasants ; China ; Peasant uprisings ; China ; Electronic books ; Electronic books ; Electronic books
    Abstract: Exploring one of the most dynamic and contested regions of the world, this series includes works on political, economic, cultural, and social changes in modern and contemporary Asia and the Pacific. The leading specialist on China's twentieth century peasant resistance reexamines, in bold and original ways, the question: Was the Chinese peasantry a revolutionary force? Where most scholarly attention has focused on Communist-led peasant movements, Bianco's story is one of peasant thought and action largely unmediated by modern political parties. This volume pays particular attention to the firs
    Description / Table of Contents: Cover; Half Title; Series Page; Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; Acknowledgments; Abbreviations; Introduction; 1. Secret Societies and Peasant Self-Defense, 1921-1933; 2. Reflections on Chinese Peasants and Revolution; 3. A Peasant Revolution?; 4. How Credible Are the Numbers?; 5. Peasant Uprisings Against Poppy-Tax Collection inSuxian and Lingbi (Anhui) in 1932; 6. The Responses of Opium Growers to EradicationCampaigns and the Poppy Tax, 1907-1949; 7. Resistance to Land Rent, 1895-1949; 8. Looting and Food Riots; 9. Early Twentieth-Century Xiedou
    Description / Table of Contents: 10. Xiedou during the Second Half of the Twentieth Century11. Peasant Responses to the Chinese Communist PartyMobilization Policies, 1937-1945; 12. Peasant Resistance in the PRC; 13. Weak Weapons; Appendix 1: Time Distribution of Rural Disturbances; Appendix 2: Cases of Peasant Resistance to Opium Eradication Campaigns, 1907-1949; Appendix 3: Cases of Peasant Resistance to Opium Tax, 1896-1949; Appendix 4: Geographical Distribution of Tenant Disturbances(1895-1949) According to Various Sources; Appendix 5: Differences and Convergences BetweenBernhardt's and My Own Views
    Description / Table of Contents: Glossary of Chinese TermsIndex
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    ISBN: 9780765614766
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    Parallel Title: Print version Education and Social Change in China: Inequality in a Market Economy
    DDC: 306.43/20951
    Keywords: Education and state ; China ; Congresses ; Education, Rural ; China ; Congresses ; Educational equalization ; China ; Congresses ; Educational sociology ; China ; Congresses ; Electronic books ; Electronic books
    Abstract: Market reform, financial decentralization, and economic globalization have greatly accentuated China's social and regional inequalities. Education is expected to address these inequalities in a context of rapid social change, including the rise of an urban middle class, changed status of women, resurgence of ethnic identities, growing rural to urban migration, and lingering poverty in remote areas. But some argue that state policies have not sufficiently addressed inequitable practices, and that schools actually perpetuate and reproduce inequities, giving rise to a new system of social stratif
    Description / Table of Contents: Cover; Half Title; Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; List of Tables and Figure; Foreword; Map: Fieldwork Research Sites; Part I: Inequalities and Development Discourse; 1. Schooling and Inequality in China; 2. Challenging the Gendered Dimensions of Schooling: The State, NGOs, and Transnational Alliances; Part II. Rural Northwest; 3. Poverty, Health, and Schooling in Rural China; 4. Tibetan Girls' Education: Challenging Prevailing Theory; Part III. Rural Southwest; 5. Rural Classroom Teaching and Nonfarm Jobs in Yunnan
    Description / Table of Contents: 6. Education in Rural Tibet: Development, Problems, and AdaptationsPart IV. Urban Divisions: Migrants and the Middle Class; 7. The Integration of Migrant Children in Beijing Schools; 8. Educational Stratification and the New Middle Class; List of Contributors; Index
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    Parallel Title: Print version Constructing ""Race"" and ""Ethnicity"" in America : Category-making in Public Policy and Administration
    DDC: 305.8/00973
    Keywords: Ethnicity ; Group identity ; United States ; Race ; Electronic books ; Electronic books
    Abstract: What do we mean in the U.S. today when we use the terms ""race"" and ""ethnicity""? What do we mean, and what do we understand, when we use the five standard race-ethnic categories: White, Black, Asian, Native American, and Hispanic? Most federal and state data collection agencies use these terms without explicit attention, and thereby create categories of American ethnicity for political purposes. Davora Yanow argues that ""race"" and ""ethnicity"" are socially constructed concepts, not objective, scientifically-grounded variables, and do not accurately represent the real world. She joins the
    Description / Table of Contents: Cover; Half Title; Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; Preface; Acknowledgments; Part I. Laying the Groundwork: Giving a(n) (Ac)Count; 1. Constructing Categories: Naming, Counting, Science, and Identity; 2. Toward an American Categorical ""Science"" of Race and Ethnicity: OMB Directive No. 15; Part II. Making Race-Ethnicity Through Public Policies; 3. Color, Culture, Country: Race and Ethnicity in the U.S. Census; 4. Identity Choices? Agency Policies and Individual Resistance; Part III. Making Race-Ethnicity Through Administrative Practices
    Description / Table of Contents: 5. Ethnogenesis by the Numbers, Ethnogenesis by ""Eyeballing""6. Constructing Race-Ethnicity Through Social Science Research: Managing Workplace Diversity; Part IV. Telling Identities: The Contemporary Legacy; 7. Public Policies as Identity Stories: American Race-Ethnic Discourse; 8. Changing (Ac)Counting Practices: Meditation on a Problem; References; Index
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    Hoboken : Taylor and Francis
    ISBN: 9780415329699
    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource (174 p)
    Edition: 2nd ed
    Series Statement: Understanding Social Change
    Series Statement: Understanding Social Change Ser.
    Parallel Title: Print version The Natural and the Social : Uncertainty, Risk, Change
    DDC: 303.48/3
    Keywords: Human ecology ; Nature and nurture ; Risk management ; Science ; Social aspects ; Electronic books ; Electronic books
    Abstract: The age in which people in the West have treated society and nature as essentially separate matters is at an end. Environmental change and degradation impinge on all our lives, and even our genes are increasingly seen by employers and insurers as commodities.The Natural and the Social draws on insights from across the social sciences to examine the changing character of these interrelations between society and nature. Individual chapters look in depth at genes, environments and human development, medical practices and health, and the management of environmental risk. Throughout students are en
    Description / Table of Contents: Cover; Half Title; Title; Copyright; Contents; Series preface; Introduction; CHAPTER 1 What is human nature?; CHAPTER 2 Whose health is it anyway?; CHAPTER 3 Nature for sale; CHAPTER 4 Living with risk: the unnatural geography of environmental crises; Afterword; Acknowledgements; Index
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  • 95
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    Hoboken : Taylor and Francis
    ISBN: 9780765680624
    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource (793 p)
    Parallel Title: Print version American Folktales: From the Collections of the Library of Congress
    DDC: 398.2/0973
    Keywords: American Folklife Center ; Storytellers ; United States ; Tales ; United States ; Electronic books ; Electronic books
    Abstract: This two-volume collection of folktales represents some of the finest examples of American oral tradition. Drawn from the largest archive of American folk culture, the American Folklife Center at the Library of Congress, this set comprises magic tales, legends, jokes, tall tales and personal narratives, many of which have never been transcribed before, much less published, in a sweeping survey. Eminent folklorist and award-winning author Carl Lindahl selected and transcribed over 200 recording sessions - many from the 1920s and 1930s - that span the 20th century, including recent material draw
    Description / Table of Contents: Cover; Half Title; Title; Copyright; Contents; Foreword; Acknowledgments; Introduction; A Note on the Recordings and How They Are Transcribed; American Folktales: Their Stuff and Styles; 1. THE NATION'S MOST CELEBRATED STORYTELLING FAMILY: THE HICKSES AND THE HARMONS; Samuel Harmon; 1. How I Bought and Stole My Wife; 2. Telling Tales to My Grandkids; 3. The Great Pumpkin; 4. Giant Mosquitoes; 5. Jack, Tom, and Will; 6. The Marriage of the King's Daughter; 7. Stiff Dick; 8. The Mad King; 9. The Bean Tree; 10. Little Dicky Whigburn; 11. Catskins; 12. Old Black Dog; Maud Long
    Description / Table of Contents: 13. When My Mother Told Jack Tales14. Jack and the Giants' Newground; 15. Jack and the Drill; 16. Jack and the Varmints; 17. Jack and the Bull; 18. Jack and the Doctor's Girl; 19. Jack and the Northwest Wind; 20. Jack and One of His Hunting Trips; 21. Old Fire Dragaman; 22. Love: A Riddle Tale; 23. Jack and the Heifer Hide; 24. Jack and the River; 25. Hooray for Old Sloosha!; 26. Feathers in Her Hair; 27. The Yape; Ray Hicks; 28. Jack and the Robbers; 29. The Unicorn and the Wild Boar; 30. The Witch Woman on the Stone Mountain on the Tennessee Side; 31. Grinding at the Mill; 32. Mule Eggs
    Description / Table of Contents: 2. SARA CLEVELAND: IRISH AMERICAN TALES FROM BRANT LAKE, NEW YORK33. Finn MacCool and the Rocks; 34. Black Horses; 35. Telling Fortunes with Cards; 36. Spiritualism and Fortune Telling; 37. Pull, God Damn You, Pull!; 38. The Kiln Is Burning; 39. Baby's Gone; 40. The Witch and the Donkey; 41. The Lady and the Fairy; 42. Little Red Night Cap; 43. Old Graybeard; 44. Shiver and Shake; 45. Rob Haww; 46. One Thing the Devil Can't Do; 3. J.D. SUGGS: ITINERANT MASTER; 47. How I Learned My Tales; 48. Mr. Snake and the Farmer; 49. Buzzard Goes to Europe; 50. Monkey Apes His Master
    Description / Table of Contents: 51. Efan Outruns the Lord52. Mr. Fox and Mr. Deer; 53. Brother Rabbit Rides Brother Bear; 54. Brother Bear Meets Man; 55. Brother Bear and Brother Deer Hold a Meeting; 56. The Devil's Daughter; 57. Where Um-hum Came From; 58. Skin, Don't You Know Me?; 59. The Great Watermelon; 60. Pull Me Up, Simon; 61. Brother Bill, the Wild Cowboy; 4. JOSHUA ALLEY: DOWN-EAST TALES FROM JONESPORT, MAINE; 62. The Bear's Tale; 63. Man Warren Beal and the Indians; 64. Wrestling the Chief; 65. Chute's Wedge Trick; 66. Dodging the Wolves; 67. Open, Saysem; 68. The Murderers; 69. The Haunted Sloop
    Description / Table of Contents: 70. Groans, Gold, Dreams, and the Devil5. WILL ""GILLIE"" GILCHRIST: TALES OF INJUSTICE IN THE URBAN SOUTH; 71. Robbed-and Taken for a Thief; 72. More Cop Trouble; 73. Courtroom Trouble; 74. More Courtroom Trouble; 75. Cop, Courtroom, and Jail Trouble; 6. JANE MUNCY FUGATE: HEALING TALES FOR A MOUNTAIN CHILD AND TROUBLED ADULTS; 76. How I Learned My Tales; 77. Merrywise; 78. One-My-Darling; 79. Old Greasybeard; 80. The King's Well; 81. Rawhead and Bloodybones; 82. The Three Sillies; 83. The Tarnished Star; 84. Tailipoe (1955); 85. Tailipoe (2001); Notes on the Tales
    Description / Table of Contents: 7. THE NATION'S MOST CELEBRATED FOLKLORE COLLECTORS
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  • 96
    ISBN: 9780765608185
    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource (369 p)
    Parallel Title: Print version Rural China: Economic and Social Change in the Late Twentieth Century
    DDC: 306.0951091734
    Keywords: China ; Rural conditions ; China ; Social conditions ; 1976-2000 ; Electronic books ; Electronic books
    Abstract: This book reports the findings of two field studies conducted between 1993 and 2001 in seven townships and six provinces in China. The authors describe the process of rural urbanization and its related economic, social, and political changes by focusing mainly on the zhen (town), in addition to administrative offices and companies involved in the local economy, and village committees. The authors show that the social changes resulting from China's economic reforms are occurring mainly from below, and that this process is also resulting in a weakening of the economic and political dominance of
    Description / Table of Contents: Cover; Half Title; Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; List of Tables, Figures, and Maps; Preface; 1. Introduction; Distinct Features of the Process of Change; Social Change; 2. Zhen Settlements: Between Urban and Rural; Preconditions for the Designation of Zhen; Development of the Number of Zhen; Definition and Development of the Urban Population in Zhen; Perspectives on the Process of Urbanization and the Functions of Zhen; 3. Field Research: Fieldwork Procedures and the Surveyed Zhen; Methods in Our Fieldwork Procedures in 1993-1994 and 2000-2001
    Description / Table of Contents: Empirical Problems, Especially During Our First Fieldwork Period, 1993-1994The 1993-1994 and 2000-2001 Case Studies: Zhen Regional Conditions of Development; 4. Settlements and Population; Development of Settlements, Infrastructure, and Public and Commercial Institutions; Development of Settlements, Land Utilization, and Infrastructure; Public and Commercial Institutions; Population Growth and Migration; Development of Population and Migration in Chinese Zhen; Population Development and Migration in the Selected Zhen; Summary; 5. Economic Structures and Economic Change
    Description / Table of Contents: Process of PrivatizationNationwide Development; Private Sector in the Regions Studied in 1993-1994; Structure of Ownership in Rural Areas in the Mid-1990s; Summary; Rural Collective and Private Enterprises; Development and Regional Structure of Rural Enterprises; Township and Village Enterprises; Development and Situation of Zhen-Owned, Village-Owned, and Private Enterprises in the Analyzed Zhen; Summary; The Regional Labor Market in Relation to Rural Collective and Private Enterprises: Results from Our Case Studies, 1993-1994 and 2000-2001
    Description / Table of Contents: The Rural Labor Market: Transition from Agriculture to Nonagrarian SectorsDevelopment of Employment: Origin and Engagement of the Workforce; Composition of the Workforce: Age, Gender, and Qualifications; Situation of Employment, Social Security, and Living Conditions; Summary; 6. Finance System and Development of Rural Towns (Zhen); Introduction; Local Budget and Taxes: An Overview; Township- and Town-Level Revenues and Expenditures: Empirical Data of the Analyzed Zhen; Structural Problems of the Towns' and Townships' Public Budgets
    Description / Table of Contents: Tax Agreement between Township/Town-Level and County/City-Level GovernmentsConclusion; 7. Processes of Change in Administration and Politics; Increasing Economic Factors of Politics: New Functions of the Local Bureaucracy; Inflation of the Local Bureaucracy; Economic Transformation of the Bureaucracy; Administration at the County, Zhen, and Village Levels; Cadre System; Administration at the County Level; Administration at the Zhen Level; Administration at the Village Level; Problems and Changes in the Traditional Party and Administrative Structures
    Description / Table of Contents: Problems of the Local Administrative Hierarchy: The Relationships among Counties, Zhen, and Villages
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  • 97
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    Hoboken : Taylor and Francis
    ISBN: 9781848932326
    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource (270 p)
    Series Statement: Studies for the International Society for Cultural HIST
    Series Statement: Studies for the International Society for Cultural History Ser.
    Parallel Title: Print version A Cultural History of the Radical Sixties in the San Francisco Bay Area
    DDC: 306.209794609046
    Keywords: Breast--Cancer--History ; Breast ; Cancer ; History ; Electronic books ; Electronic books
    Abstract: The San Francisco Bay Area was a meeting point for radical politics and counterculture in the 1960s. Until now there has been little understanding of what made political culture here unique. This work explores the development of a regional culture of radicalism in the Bay Area, one that underpinned both political protest and the counterculture
    Description / Table of Contents: Cover; Half Title; Title; Copyright; Contents; Acknowledgements; List of Abbreviations; List of Figures; Introduction: The Culture and Politics of Space; 1 The Culture Wars and the Sixties; 2 Go West!; 3 Free Space, Free Speech; 4 SDS Goes West; 5 Genesis of a Counterculture; 6 The Contradictions of Cultural Radicalism; 7 Liberated Territory; 8 Revolutionary Dreams, Provincial Politics; 9 Soulful Socialism and Felicitous Space; Notes; Works Cited; Index
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  • 98
    ISBN: 9781138818781
    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource (249 p)
    Edition: 3rd ed.
    Parallel Title: Print version Constructing and Reconstructing Childhood : Contemporary issues in the sociological study of childhood
    DDC: 305.23
    RVK:
    Keywords: Electronic books ; Electronic books
    Abstract: When the first edition of this seminal work appeared in 1990, the sociology of childhood was only just beginning to emerge as a distinct sub-discipline. Drawing together strands of existing sociological writing about childhood and shaping them into a new paradigm, the original edition of this Routledge Classic offered a potent blend of ideas that informed, even inspired, many empirical studies of children's lives because it provided a unique lens through which to think about childhood. Featuring a collection of articles which summarised the developments in the study of  childhood across the so
    Description / Table of Contents: Cover; Half Title; Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; Acknowledgments; Preface; Preface to Second Edition; Introduction; 1 A new paradigm for the sociology of childhood?: provenance, promise and problems; 2 Constructions and reconstructions of British childhood: an interpretative survey, 1800 to the present; 3 Psychology and the cultural construction of children's needs; Postscript; 4 A voice for children in statistical and social accounting: a plea for children's right to be heard; Postscript
    Description / Table of Contents: 5 It's a small world: Disneyland, the family and the multiple re-representations of American childhood6 Negotiating childhood: changing constructions of age for Norwegian children; 7 Street children: deconstructing a construct; Postscript; 8 Who are you kidding?: children, power and the struggle against sexual abuse; 9 Childhood and the policy makers: a comparative perspective on the globalization of childhood; Postscript; 10 Re-presenting childhood: time and transition in the study of childhood; Notes on Contributors; Index
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  • 99
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    Hoboken : Taylor and Francis
    ISBN: 9780415678841
    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource (184 p)
    Series Statement: International Library of Sociology
    Series Statement: International Library of Sociology Ser.
    Parallel Title: Print version Transforming Images : Screens, affect, futures
    DDC: 302.1
    Keywords: Self-perception.. ; Representation (Philosophy) ; Electronic books ; Electronic books
    Abstract: Contemporary social and cultural life is increasingly organised around a logic of self-transformation, where changing the body is seen as key. Transforming Images examines how the future functions within this transformative logic to indicate the potential of a materially better time. The book explores the crucial role that images have in organising an imperative for transformation and in making possible, or not, the materialisation of a better future. Coleman asks the questions: which futures are appealing and to whom? How do images tap into and reproduce wider social and cultural processes of
    Description / Table of Contents: Cover; Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; List of figures; Acknowledgements; Introduction: transformation, potential, futures; 1 Screening affect: images, representational thinking and the actualization of the virtual; 2 Bringing the image to life: interactive mirrors and intensive experience; 3 Becoming different: makeover television, proximity and immediacy; 4 Immanent measure: interaction, attractors and the multiple temporalities of online dieting; 5 Pre-empting the future: obesity, prediction and Change4Life
    Description / Table of Contents: Conclusion: transforming images - sociology, the future and the virtualNotes; References; Index
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  • 100
    ISBN: 9780415840361
    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource (221 p)
    Series Statement: Routledge Studies in Education and Neoliberalism
    Series Statement: Routledge Studies in Education, Neoliberalism, and Marxism Ser.
    Parallel Title: Print version Colonized Schooling Exposed : Progressive Voices for Transformative Educational and Social Change
    DDC: 370.11/5
    Keywords: Transformative learning.. ; Critical pedagogy.. ; Neoliberalism ; Social aspects.. ; Postcolonialism ; Social aspects.. ; Social change ; Electronic books
    Abstract: This book presents a novel perspective on neocolonialism, education and other related issues. It unveils the effects of neocolonialism on the learning and well-being of students and workers, including marginalized groups such as Native Americans, Latino/as, and African Americans. It is a collection of in-depth interviews with and heartfelt essays by committed social justice educators and scholars genuinely concerned with educational issues situated in the context of western neocolonialism and neoliberalism.This dialogical way of discussing important issues and co-constructing knowledge can be
    Description / Table of Contents: Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; Introduction; PART I: Unmasking the Wretchedness of Neoliberalism and Neocolonialism; 1 Colonialism in the 21st Century: A Critical Analysis; 2 Violence and the Interstices of Difference: Working With(in) and Around Fanon; 3 Colonialism and Neoliberalism: Twins of Inequities: A Conversation with Vijay Prashad; 4 Countering the Colonizing Allure of (Pseudo)-Scientific Discourses in Education Research and Policy; 5 Courageous Voices Against Neocolonial and White Supremacy: Sandy Grande and Pierre Orelus in Dialogue; 6 Surviving Language as a Refugee
    Description / Table of Contents: 7 Unfair Comparisons: Monolingual Norms and Language Discrimination Against Nonnative English-Speaking Students at U.S. Colleges and Universities8 An arabyyah-muslimah Feminist Negotiating Gender/Nation/Sexuality/Colonial Discourses: A Conversation with Manal Hamzeh; 9 Testimonios of Microaggressions on University and College Campuses; PART II Unmasking the Wretchedness of Neoliberalism and Neocolonialism; 10 Marxist Scholarship in Neoliberal Times: Social Imagination or Social Revolution?
    Description / Table of Contents: 11 A Critical Pedagogy of Revolutionary Solidarity Against Neoliberal, White-Supremacist, Petrochemical Plunder: A Conversation with Curry Stephenson Malott12 Understanding History From the Standpoint of the Oppressed; 13 Uncovering Racial, Socioeconomic, and Political Domination Through the Western Neocolonial and Neoliberal Agenda: A Conversation With Sangeeta Kamat; 14 Education, Neoliberalism, Neoconservatism, and Class Struggle in Britain and Europe; Conclusion; Contributors; Index
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